Forsyth County NcArchives Obituaries.....Staub, Augustus August 3, 1857
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Sat. Aug. 15, 1857, North Carolina Argus
      DEATH OF AUGUSTUS STAUB
   On Sunday night, the 3rd of August the inmates of the Salem Hotel were 
startled with a fearful explosion in a room in the Hotel occupied by MR. 
AUGUSTUS STAUB, a hiighly esteemed citizen of Salem. On going to the room, the 
landlord discovered MR. STAUB in his bed surrounded by flames, both partitions 
of the room torn down, the front and rear bulged outwards, and the whole 
apartment densely filled with smoke, and a smell of power, turpentine, and 
other chemical substances. The landlord, at risk of his own life, succeeded in 
dragging the burning man from his room, but he died a short time afterwards. 
His charred body was a horrible and sickening spectacle. It is supposed that 
he was experimenting with some chemical preparation which accidently exploded. 
MR. STAUB is said to have possessed considerable property. It is not know if 
he had any relatives in the country. -- Raleigh Register

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