Thomasville – Thomas, the younger son of Mr. Frank KINDLEY, of Holly Grove, was seriously burned with gunpowder last week. When he went home from school at dinner to attend the stock, he attempted to fire his gun, but falling to make it go off, he drew the load and threw the powder into the fire. It at once flashed and burned him severely.
Source: Davidson Times-Dispatch, 29 January 1890. Paper available at Google News Archive.
Mr. Frank KINDLEY was in town yesterday limping from the effect of getting a fall with a horse the day before. He says that his boy who was burned by an explosion of gunpowder the other day is not seriously injured through his whole face is seared. The accident did not occur in the matter stated by our Thomasville correspondent. According to the boy’s statement, he went out to shoot at a hawk, and when he was putting the ammunition away after returning to the house, he passed by an open fire place with the powder horn in his hand. Not noticing that the stopper had dropped out of the powder horn, he thoughtlessly inverted it over the fire with the result as stated.
Source: Davidson Times-Dispatch, 29 January 1890. Paper available at Google News Archive.