Monday, May 13, 2019

Wiley Benton Killed When Engine Explodes, May 13, 1919

From the Monroe Journal, May 13, 1919

Wiley Benton Killed When Engine Explodes

News was received here this afternoon just as The Journal goes to press that Mr. Wiley Benton, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Frank Benton, was killed when his engine exploded. Mr. Carl Benton ‘phoned the sad news from Hamlet. He had just learned of the accident but did not know how or when it happened. It is reported that the accident occurred near Raleigh about 12 o’clock.

Mr. Benton had been in the employ of the Seaboard, running out of Hamlet as engineer for a number of years. He was about 28 years old and unmarried. He was an excellent young man and numbered as his friends every one who knew him.

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