Ellison Bay, Wis. – Much of this tiny tourist town on the shore of Lake Michigan remained closed Tuesday, a day after a series of explosions wrecked buildings and killed a vacationing Michigan couple.
The cause had not been determined, but investigators were focusing on the possibility of a propane gas leak, said Chief Chris Hecht of the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Department.
“What should be a bustling community right now is vacated. It’s a devastating blow,” Charles Most, chairman of the Door County Board and the Liberty Grove Town Board, said late Monday.
The blasts early Monday collapsed a 136-year-old grocery store, burned down a cottage and damaged a maintenance building that included several apartments in this unincorporated village of about 150 residents on the Door County peninsula, Hecht said.
