Man Carelessly Empties Motorcycle Gas on Train Floor, It Catches Fire

CARELESS WITH GASOLINE.

Motorcycle Man Pours It on the Floor and Sets Fire to a Combination Car at Salem.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 7.-Partial destruction of the combination baggage and express car on the Omaha railroad at Salem last night as the result of a peculiar accident is reported by arrivals from that place. A passenger placed in the baggage car a motorcycle and was instructed by the conductor that he must remove the gasoline from it. Instead of pouring the gasoline out upon the ground it was poured upon the floor of the baggage car and the interior of the car in an instant was a mass of flames, the gasoline having ignited from lamps in the car. The motorcycle was completely destroyed and the interior of the car badly damaged and several trunks and other contents consumed.

--Weekly State Spirit and Dakota Huronite, Huron, South Dakota, August 19, 1909, page 8.

Comment: So what was this moron's problem? Obviously, if we don't want you having gasoline on board the train, we also don't want you pouring it on the floor, stupid. You have any idea what happens when gas and fire mix?