The Jackson Citizen Patriot • December 29, 1921

Kerosene-Gas Caused Blast, Death, Belief

Officers Are Investigating Second Fatal Explosion Near Royal Oak

Youth of 15 is killed. Burns Caused Death of Lad Who Use Oil to Start Fire in Stove. Detroit, Dec 29 - A second fatal explosion in the Royal OAk section, caused by the use of what supposedly was kerosene to kindle a fire, was being investigated by Oakland County officers today. SteveMarius, died last night from burns received when oil exploded in a stove t his home on the Ten Mile road and Woodward avenue but a few miles distant from the spot where Victor Waken and a number of others were killed recently in a similar blast. Ora C. Farmer, Oakland County coroner, announced today he would investigate the second explosion in an effort to learn whether the death as due to the same kind of kerosene gasoline mixture that is believed to have caused the Waken tragedy.


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