Gasoline Explosion

An explosión of gasoline occurred in St. Louis, Mo., last week, which destroyed $20,000 worth of property and several lives. A large building was lifted from its foundation and completely wrecked. This is the most terriblo event of the kind of which we have heard, but gasoline explosiona are becoming eommon in Michigan. As gasoline stoves are coming into common use in summer, these accidents will increase. People handle it carelessly who would not go near gunpowder, and yet it is more dangerous than gunpowder. It is claimed that some dealers in gasoline and gasoline stoves no longer send out with the stoves circulara to warn people of danger and instruoting them howto avoid explosiona. The State board of health could do a good work by taking hold of this subject, as it did of the illuminating oil question, and devising a way to prevent such frightful losses of life from gasoline explosions.