Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1907 — Illinois Blast Kills Four. [ARTICLE]

Illinois Blast Kills Four.

Johnston, City, 111., Jan. 31. —Four men are dead and seven others injured as a result of a powder explosion in the west side mine of the Johnston City and Big Muddy Coal Mining company. The dead: Romeo Fehrenbaker, unmarried: Mart Davis, married; Frank Meyer, 17 years old. Fehrenbaker was killed outright. Lowrey, Davis and Meyer died a few hours later without regaining consciousness.