Then their was explosion and sudden shower of meat.
    Thirteen cows, the property of Claude Peters, a dairyman near Martinsburg, Pa., were destroyed recently by attempting to eat dynamite. The detonation could be heard for a mile in every direction. The cows were blown many feet into the air, and not a single one of the herd escaped. The accident is one of the strangest on record.
    For some time past a crew of workmen have been engaged in advancing a telephone line along the roadway. A shed was erected on a bit of land belonging to Peters, and in this the dynamite was stored. The dynamite was used for blasting purposes. The afternoon of the accident the cows were apparently contentedly munching the pasture grass when they observed the powder shed. They all journeyed to it and found the door was open. On the floor near the door was a box filled with sticks of dynamite. This was upset so that the dynamite rolled out on the grass, and several of the cows started an investigation.
    It was not known how many of the cows secured sticks of the explosive, but when they began gnawing at it the friction caused an explosion, and in an instant the air in the immediate vicinity was filled with particles of flying cows. Peters found the ground littered with hoofs and other evidence of the animals, and the milking was not done that night.
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