Hunted Gas With A Match

HUNTED GAS WITH A MATCH
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Street Sweeper Larmee Has an Experience
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TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
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In Which His Hat Went Skyward and He Went Eastward
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     Chris Larmee, the street sweeper of Liberty street, hunted for gas with a match Wednesday.
     He found it.
     But only a little more force in the explosion would have been required so that it would have been impossible to find Chris.
     As he was pursuing his duties of cleaning up the street in front of Paul Schall's barber shop, he commenced to smell gas. The sense of smell led him to the manhole as the place where the odoriferous vapor was escaping. He bent down and looked. It was dark in the hole and he lit a match to see better.
     There was a sudden and terrific explosion. Larmee's hate went soaring up in the air while Larmee was knocked toward Main street with a force that seemed as if he didn't intend to stop.
     He picked himself up, went into the barber shop, took an inventory of himself, found that no arms or legs were missing and the he was more frightened than hurt, and then proceeded about his business as if nothing had happened.
     Mr. Douglas says that he has suspected for some time that there is a leak in the gas pipes in that vicinity.
     Larmee verified it.