This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0AC.2ACI/2615 Message Board Post: Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois) July 1, 1887 Terrific Gas Explosion Rutland, Vt., July 1 - A terrific gas explosion took place yesterday morning in the millinery store of Mary E. Sullivan, on Merchant's row. She went to the store and lite a lamp, when the explosion occurred, blowing the windows down and the goods into the street. The lady was rendered unconscious. A large plate glass and other windows on both sides of the street, seventeen in all, were blown out. The interior of the Rutland County Bank was badly damaged. The locks of the front doors of stores not opened were blown off and found 100 feet away. Several persons in the street were thrown down, and one person was badly cut by flying glass. The damage is large.