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CRESOTE GAS EXPLODED
Narrow Escape of Cutler’s Mill, Welland
[People’s Press, 21 September 1909]
On Saturday an explosion occurred in Cutler’s Planing Mills on North Main street. The explosion was caused by a workman lighting a match to find which of two barrels contained black paint and which creosote, it being dark where these were stored. The flames came into contact with the gas from the cresote and the gas caught fire. The mill hands rushed in to put out the fire with water. Tabor Putman threw a rubber cover over the barrel and it fell partially down into the barrel and caught fire around the edge. Mr. Putman got his hands burned. The fire was extinguished with little damage done.
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