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- BLUFF CITY - One Bluff City man was instantly killed, another was injured and two Carter County men were injured in a delayed dynamite explosion yesterday near Kingsport.
T.F. Osborne [Thomas Fred Osborne], prominent Bluff city man and father of five children was killed in the blast, Carl Oliver, 20, of Bluff City was injured, as were John B. Lyons, 45, and J.C. Peeks, 22, of near Elizabethton.
Osborne was foreman of the work crew doing blasting operations on a logging trail in the Kingsport-Church Hill area.
Lyons, who was treated at a Kingsport hospital and released, told the story of the accident. The extent of injuries to Oliver and Peeks was not determined today.
Failed to Explode
Lyons said a charge of dynamite had been set in a hole and the fuse lighted. It failed to explode and after waiting 11 minutes, the four men returned to the site to see what was wrong.
"We put another charge in to make the first one go off," Lyons said.
The second charge exploded but the first one still failed to detonate. The men again returned to the site and one began probing in the loose dirt.
Then the orginal charge exploded.
Peeks and Oliver were reported in fair condition at Kingsport's Holston Valley Community Hospital.
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Abt 1921 - 1954 (~ 33 years)
