The Monroe News-Star - John E. Medlock Dies in Mysterious Explosion

Date: Dec. 1999
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>




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Monroe News-Star
Tuesday, June 29, 1909
Page 5, Column 4

Death From Explosion
John E. Medlock, night watchman at the big mill at Rochelle, was 
fatally injured by an explosion of gasoline Sunday night. He died from 
his injuries yesterday and was buried near Chapel Hill, this parish, 
today, the funeral services being in charge of the Masonic lodge, of 
which he was a member. There is something suspicious about Medlock's 
death. In the place of the oil can, where he filled his lantern every 
night, some one placed a can of gasoline. In filling the lantern the 
gasoline became ignited and the explosion followed. 

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