Serious Accident. John A. McKenzie of Yelm Badly Hurt by a Windlass
( (Morning Olympian November 2, 1895)
People that came of age in the 1960s might remember a public service annoucment warning one that if you found a blasting cap “Do not pick it up.” The danger was real “J. A. Piper has begun suit against this county for $25,000 alleged damages to a son from explosion of dynamite cap found by the boy on the road between this city and Yelm. The loss sustained by Bennie Piper, the son, is a thumb and two fingers. It is alleged that the dynamite was left on the road by the county’s employees, so that the boy had easy access to it.”