Torrent, KY Home Torpedo Co. Explosion, Apr 1919

Submitted by Teri

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