Dies in Explosion at
W.E. Sale Cannery in Little Elkin Community
Raymond Delany Pardue, almost 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. D.G.
Pardue of the Little Elkin community, was fatally scalded by steam in an
explosion while firing a boiler at the W.E. Sale cannery, three miles west of
Elkin, early yesterday morning. He died at Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital,
Elkin, about noon.
George Poplin Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. George Poplin of
Ronda, also an employe of the cannery, was painfully burned and bruised in the
explosion.
Young Pardue, late in reaching his post, is said to have
fired the boiler too rapidly for the pop off valve to take care of the excess
steam. When the boiler gave away directly over the fire box, the steam covered
Pardue’s body, scalding it horribly before he was hurled 20 feet away by the
force. Others at the plant sustained lighter burns.
Pardue and Poplin were carried to the hospital at Elkin, the
former’s condition being beyond medical aid.
The victim was the eldest child of the family and a nephew
of W.E. Sale, proprietor of the cannery. Surviving are his parents, two sisters
and a brother.
Funeral rites will be conducted today at 2 o’clock at Little
Elkin Baptist church.
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