L'explosion du moulin à scie de staples

THE STAPLES SAW-MILL EXPLOSION

A forerunner - un avertissement - was a sign predicting a death or a tragedy. Diana Matthews (née Trépanier) was born in Ruscom in 1900. When she was young, people were still talking about the sawmill that blew up in Staples in 1892; according to newspaper reports at the time, seven people lost their lives. She tells how some people claim the explosion had been predicted by a forerunner.

They imagined they had seen visions. My aunt Anime — Mrs. Willie Laurendeau — told me that when the sawmill blew up in Staples, that Adelard Chauvin had several boys who worked there — three maybe — and that they got killed when it blew up. But the building didn’t burn down, though. And they said there was a crucifix in the gable, in the peak of the gable. Not every night, but on several nights, they saw a big white cross in the peak of the mill. That’s what they call a forerunner.