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CLAY JOHNSON September 21, 1912 
Bell County KyArchives Obituaries

The Peoples News. A Democratic Newspaper
Continental Coal Company Explosion - 1921 - Bell Co, Ky


Sept 21, 1912

The Peoples News. A Democratic Newspaper. 

Explosion of Powder kills two and injures one at Rim, Kentucky Special just in from Middlesboro, Sept 21,1912 Two men were killed and another injured fatally Friday afternoon, when 76 kegs of powder, weighing twenty-five pounds each, exploded at mine No.4 of the Continental Coal Company at Rim, Twenty miles from this city. The dead men are Joseph Lewis, a mine foreman, and Clay Johnson , a car coupler. David Disney was so badly injured that it is believed it is impossible for him to recover.

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