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    1. Acme Company Explosion Dec. 30, 1893 McDonald PA Outlook
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. The Acme Company's nitroglycerine magazine on the Samuel STURGEON p;ace opposite Willow Grove station, let go on Sunday afternoon about 1:30 o'clock. A large quantity of glycerine was stored there, and the explosion broke most of the windows in Willow Grove and knocked the windows out of Robinson Run Church on the hill half a mile away; the report shook buildings for miles around. Cause of the explosion not known, though supposed to have been from fire caused by an overheated hot air pipe used to warm the magazine. No one was around the magazine at the time; at least no one is known to have perished. It is possible that some one unknown at present may have caused the explosion and disappeared with it. This is the third time in two years this Robinson Run Church had its windows demolished by the Willow Grove glycerine explosions. The church people will probably come on the Acme Company for damages. When the glycerine factory at Willow Grove blew up on Sunday a cloud of dust and debris passed down the Valley over Oakdale two miles away. Houses in Oakdale shook as with an earthquake.

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