Hamilton County IL Archives Obituaries.....Tittles, Rev John B 1907
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Cook County Herald, Mar 8, 1907
Cook County Herald, Arlington Heights IL
Mar 8, 1907

Three Killed by Dynamite

Two Children Also Fatally Hurt in Wreck of Farmer's House

Three persons are dead and two more fatally hurt as the result of the attempt 
of Charles Tittles, a Hamilton county farmer, to thaw seventeen pounds of 
dynamite in the kitchen stove while his family ate dinner. Tittles a few days 
ago purchased thirty pounds of dynamite to clear away stumps on his farm. The 
other day he found the explosive frozen and took it into the house to thaw. He 
had invited his father, the Rev. John B. Tittles, 55, a Baptist minister, to 
come over to dinner. Tittles, his wife, father, and two children were at the 
table when the explosion occurred. Tittles, his father and his wife were 
killed instantly, and the two children, Ivan and Clem, aged 4 and 2 years, 
respectively, fatally injured. Neighbors who hurried to the place found the 
bodies of the dead torn almost to bits. The house had been blow to atoms and 
twisted and splintered timbers hurled a great distance. A deep hole was dug in 
the place where the little three room cottage stood. Several sticks of frozen 
dynamite were found unharmed. It is supposed fire falling from the bottom of 
the stove set off some caps in the box of dynamite.

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