Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1910 — DYNAMITE BLAST FATAL [ARTICLE]

DYNAMITE BLAST FATAL

Explosion of a Magazine at Mine at Missouri. Edward Venson. a miner of Webb City, Mo., was killed instantly and his wife and her mother, Ellen Allen, were perhaps fatally injured when a dynamite magazine at the Red Dog mine, near here, exploded. John Baldwin, engineer at a nearby powet plant, was hurt seriously. The house in which Venson lhed was destroyed. The two small children of Venson were found in the wreckage of the house, uninjured. Walter Williams, a miner, asleep in a boarding house 600 yards from the scene of the explosion, was struck by a boulder that was thrown through the windows of his room, breaking one of his ribs.