Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1908 — UNFORTUNATE [ARTICLE]

UNFORTUNATE

Is thff Bennett Family-Four Meet « Violent Deaths. Bennett, one of the best known miners in the district, and Ed Reynolds who was working with Him, were blown up and killed at Emma Gordon mine at Miami, Okla., Reynolds lived at Miami and was blown to pieces, portions of his body being scattered over the mine. Ben-, nett was alive when other men in the mine got there but died before? he reached the surface. The accident was caused by what is known to the miners as a hot hole, having just been squibbed in order to make a pocket for the powder. Both men . were married and leave families. Jeff Bennett was perhaps the best miner in the district, having been under ground foreman for ewenty years, and everyone who knew Jeff liked him and it has been remarked many tiui uKJeff > hat ’ stood the ground,” as there can not be found a miner in the district that has workeff in the ground as long as Jeff, but who has been laid to rest. Cartersville, (Mo.) paper.-: ; On Tuesday, August SOth, 1892, Knfcley Bennett and his wife Emily J. Bennett had been to Rensselaer returning home, apd they had 'gdt as figr as the crossing at the grove east of town, and haff driven on to the track when they were struck by the afternoon train and horribly mangled, Bennett being thrown high in the air and lighting on the pilot of the engine dead, while the wife had been thrown to one side of the right of way and was picked up dead. The eldest son of Knlcley Bennett, and brother of Jeff Bennett, had been killed at LaCrosse by a railroad train some seven or eight years previous. Surely misfortune pursues this family with a relentless hand.