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Subject: [KYBELL] Continental Coal Company Explosion - 1921 - Bell Co, Ky
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:27:26 EDT

HISTORY: Continental Coal Company Explosion - 1921 - Bell Co, Ky
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 15:39:27 +0000
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SURNAMES: LEWIS, JOHNSON, BISNEY [? DISNEY]

Sept 21, 1912

The Peoples News. A Democratic Newspaper. Published weekly by the Peoples
News Inc. Charles Davis Editor

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 *Bisney was so badly injured that it is believed it is impossible for
him to recover.

*Bisney [? Disney]

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