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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 705, 7 February 1922, Page 9

LIVES LOST BY LAUGH iNC.

An accident, said to be the most extraordinary on record, occurred at some oilfields in the Baku district of Russia, on the borders of the Caspian Sea. One of the big “gusher” oil wells became choked, and, with a view of blowing it clear, a number of iron drums full of nitro-giycerine were brought down by rail from Derbend, and deposited over night in a large shed, which was used by the men as a sort of canteen. The stewards of this establishment, a Greek named Caries, opened one of the drums for some reason best known to liimself, and “decanted” a small quantity of the dangerous liquid into a long thin glass used for mixing vodka. This he placed on a shelf behind the bar. Shortly afterwards there entered a workman named Borkovitch, who was famous for the boisterous hilarity of his manner, and especially for his loud, resonant laughter. The sight of nitro-glvcerine in a vodka tumbler so excited his risibility that lie gave vent to a series of stentorian guffaws. This set the half-filled glass “ringing,” and the treacherous contents immediately exploded. The concussion sufficed, in its turn, to explode the rest of the stuff in the drums, entirely demolishing the shed, and killing five persons, all who were in it at the time. The barman escaped through having gone down into the cellar just previously, whence he distinctly heard the laughter, folioved by the musical “ringing” of the thin tumbler and the two isxrdosions.

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