Torrent, Kentucky
Home Torpedo Co. Explosion
April 7, 1919
FOUR KILLED WHEN TANK OF NITROCLYCERINE LETS
Torrent, Ky. April 8. -- Four men employed at the Home Torpedo Co. here are
dead today from the result of an explosion late yesterday caused when fire
spread to a large tank where nitro glycerine was stored. The dead:
Charles Best, Knightstown, Ind.;
Arch Goodwin, Ky.; Carl Hudson,
Catiettsburg,
Ky, and E. C. Kumon, Bolivar, Ky. The bodies were found sixty feet from
the wrecked building.
Warren Evening Times, Warren, PA 8 Apr 1919
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