Ralph Grannis, 45, farmer, helped to save an indeterminate person or persons from an explosion, Cedar Springs, Michigan, May 10, 1928. In a rural schoolhouse, into which about 100 persons had crowded, gasoline dripped from a portable stove and ignited. Flames rose four feet above the table on which it stood. Grannis and another man feared an explosion, and they carried the table and the stove about 10 feet to a door and out of the building. Just as they got outside, the tank of the stove exploded. Grannis was very seriously burned, leaving one of his hands permanently crippled. 28991-2390
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