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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