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The Evening News
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The following article, appeared on the front page of the Evening News three days after the explosion. This is taken in direct quote from the newspaper:
INQUEST AT THE INFIRMARY
-------Coroner Corbin Invesigating the
Fatality which ended Two Lives Last Saturday.
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Coroner Corgin this afternoon began his inquest in the County Infirmary fatality of last Saturday, at that institution, five miles west of the city, when two inmates, Paul Butonhorne and Pearl Rhodes were instantly killed and several others seriously injured in the explosion of an engine.
The work of well-drilling was under the supervision of Contractor William Johnson, of this city, though the apparently defective engine was the property of Martin Wolf, residing near here.
The testimony of a number of witnesses and inmates was taken though no especially new developments were noted.