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By THE EXPLOSIONWatch Ring, Bone andTooth Are Imbeddedin It . -Special Despatch to Commercial Tribune.HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Feb. 16.—One of the most peculiar freaks of an explosion ever discovered was found near the scene of the recent explosion in which Ferry Fort and two horses were blown to atoms.It Is a short piece of a painted board, about four Inches by seven In size, and nearly an inch thick. The board is prob-JMMOV * w - pjC yV ' • £ * • #. a. ^ i^. I1, i* ~ |«ably a portion of the wagon box in which Perry Fort had hauled the nitroglycerin to the magazine, where it exploded.Z'-mkrWiInto this board is fliimly driven a goldwatch ring and a portioripf-e watch case, es if they had been c^t or felted into the wood. Through tfte watcl^ ring and Into the wood Is driven a mdlar tooth, root first, the surface, Or grinding part, of the tooth standing just evten with the surface. Directly through ttye gold case of the watch a piece of a jbone had been driven. Physicians say it) is a portion of a human rft. This boneyprotrudes about an inch on each side of/the board.The curiosity has bee^i viewed by thousands of people. It is now owned by rhomas Evans, a salpon keeper, of Alexandria. S®§3
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sun, Feb 17, 1901
Page 10
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Plainfield P.
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