OBIT: Death Notice of Joe GRADDOCK, 1916, Windber, Somerset County, PA

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Graddock, Joe

BLEW HIMSELF TO PIECES WITH DYNAMITE

  Joe Graddock, a miner, blew himself to pieces at Windber with a stick of 
dynamite and lighted the fuse. Portions of his anatomy were found 50 feet away. 
Graddock was worried over debts, he being on strike it is said. The deed was 
committed in a small frame building about 25 feet from his home. The report 
shook his home and smashed a number of windows. His wife looked out just in time 
to see bits of wood and pieces of his body falling around the house.

Meyersdale Commercial, Apr. 13, 1916