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Owensboro, Kentucky
Three Youths Burn to Death in Oil Blaze
Are Trapped when a Spark From Machinery Ignites Well Being Drilled in Three Men Hurt - Believed All of Them Will Die; Accident Happens Near Owensboro, Ky.
Owensboro, Ky, July 12 - Three boys were burned to death today and three men were burned probably fatally when an oil rig caught fire on a farm near here, late last night.
The dead are:
James Crowe, aged 12 years, Matt Crowe, aged 13, and Elmer Fuqua, aged 13 years.
The right caught fire after the well was shot and oil began to flow. It was believed a spark from the machinery ignited the gas and oil. The boys were watching the operations at the rig at the time they were burned to death. (El Dorado Times, Saturday, July 12, 1930; Transcribed by Peggy Thompson; July 2010)

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