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TWO KILLED
Bonne Terre Register, Bonne Terre, Mo.,
September 4, 1908

    About one o'clock Saturday morning Dan Puckett and Roy Counts were instantly killed and James Meeker and Louis Hammers seriously injured at Red Onion, Doe Run No. 9 shaft by the explosion of a blast in a missed hole.

     Mr. Puckett was pumpman and had gone over to where Meeker and Counts were running a drill.  Meeker was the driller and Counts was back-hand.  Louis Hammers, who was backing on another drill, had finished his work and had also gone over to help Counts out and was doing his work.  Counts and Puckett were sitting upon a ledge of rock near the drill, and Hammers was working with Meeker at the drill nearby.  When the drill hit the missed hole the full force of the explosion was thrown upon Puckett and Counts, killing them instantly and horribly mangling their bodies.  Meeker and Hammers were thrown some distance, their  faces and bodies badly cut by flying rock, and both knocked unconscious.  They were removed to their boarding places and given medical attention, and are reported as getting along very well. -- Lead Belt News.     

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