Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1914 — ROSCOE WILSON KILLED. [ARTICLE]

ROSCOE WILSON KILLED.

Young Man Well Known in Rensselaer Killed by Gasoline Explosion in Moline, 111. H. W. Kiplinger received a telegram Monday morning from Moline. 111., sent by the father of Roscoe Wilson, a young man who was employed in the G. E. Murray Co.’s store here a few years ago and later sang at the Princess theater, that Roscoe had died at Moline Sunday night as a result of injuries received in the explosion of a dry cleaning plant, which he was operating at Moline. Mr. Wilson, Sr., lives at Muncie and it was presumed that the explosion occurred some little time prior to the sending of the telegram, which was sent from Moline. Mrs. Kiplinger went to Muncie Monday afternoon to attend the funeral, which was to be held there, where the young man’s father resides. Roscoe was a distant relative of the Kiplingers.