Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch,
Thursday, January 15, 1885.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
BURNED
- We learn that Robt. Wood, manager for L.R. Ford, near Madisonville, was
severely burned in the back on Friday evening, the 2d last. He had been
suffering from neuralgia, and had laid down before the fire for relief, when
his clothes took fire. Dr. Dupuy was called who promptly administered to
his relief, and it was hoped that his injuries would not prove serious.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA,
Thursday, November 1, 1928.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
A truck loaded with lumber driven by Mr. Lonnie Keeton, struck a bank of
dirt and overturned, painfully injuring Mr. Keeton, and also Edward Locke,
second son of Mr. and Mrs. O.V. Locke, who was on the truck at the time.
The accident occurred last Friday morning on the Wylliesburg road near town.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA,
Thursday, October 18, 1928.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA,
Thursday, January 5, 1956.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
A 5 year old boy and his grandfather were killed near Keysville last week when
a Southern Railway train crashed into their pickup truck at a grade crossing.
Hubert Henry Clark, age, 74, and Carl Morris Bailey, age 5, both of
Keysville, were the victims.
Mr. Clark had just left his home, a short distance from the scene of the
accident, and was headed toward Route 360 when the truck collided with the
train.
Funeral services were held Friday, December 30, at 2 p.m. at Ash Camp Baptist
Church in Keysville, with burial in the church cemetery.
Mr. Clark is survived by his wife, Mrs. Essie Dalton Clark; three
daughters, Mrs. Bernard Higgins and Mrs. George Spencer, both of Victoria, and
Mrs. Morris C. Bailey, of Keysville; 2 sons, Milton W. and E.B.
Clark, both of Richmond; a brother Charles E. Clark, of Roanoke;
and seven grandchildren and a great grand-child. Carl is survived by his parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Morris C. Bailey; two
sisters, Hariett F. and Lorraine A. Bailey, and his grandparents, Mrs. Hubert
H. Clark, and Mr. and Mrs. M.M. Bailey, all of Keysville.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA,
Thursday, July 21, 1955.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
A double drowning occurred on a farm near Phenix about 10:30 a.m. Sunday when a
11 year old Negro boy swimmer disappeared at the drain pipe in the center of a
newly constructed fish pond and his 32 year old aunt lost her life in a attempt
to save him.
State Trooper J.M. Nichols identified the victims as Sallie Ann
and
Eugene Brogdon, of Phenix. The tragedy occurred on the farm of
M.B. Rice,
a member of the Charlotte County Board of Supervisors, where both
lived. Nichols said Robert Lee Brogdon, 10, stood by the pond for about
an hour before
summoning help. He quoted the small boy as saying he was waiting
for them
(the drowned pair) to come up.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA,
Thursday, March 3, 1927.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
An oil truck belonging to ? Oil Co., of Cullen, driven by Willie Carwile,
turned completely upwards on Monday afternoon shortly after ? hour, while on a
trip from Charlotte Courthouse to Drakes Branch. The driver was lacerated to some extent, but not seriously injured. He
claims he gave too much of the road in trying to avoid collision with another
auto. The truck rested with its wheels in the oil and tank at the
bottom. It was filled with oil, which was drawn off by another truck with a loss of
fifty gallons.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA,
Thursday, March 10, 1927.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
Feeling that something was wrong at home, Frank Kehoe, sott drink bartender,
got off early and went home. He found his house filled with fumes of gas
and his wife unconscious in a kitchen chair. Mrs. Kehoe was revived
later at a hospital. Gas escaped from an open jet of the stove on which a
can of milk was boiling.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Charlotte Court House,
VA, Thursday, January 8, 1874.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Smithville, VA,
Thursday, July 5, 1894.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
We regret to learn that on Thursday afternoon of last week, while in
the upper
hall of "Arcadia," the residence of E. F. Daniel, Treasurer of
the county, his little son, Samuel, about eight years old, fell
over the
ballisters to the hall below. He struck upon the side of the
head, not
fracturing the skull, but was rendered unconscious, and recognized his
parents. Dr. Gibbs, was with him all Thursday night,
and Dr.
Gregory was called in consultation on Friday mSource: orning. On Monday
his condition was reported slightly improved, though still he is not
out of danger.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Smithville, VA, Thursday,
August 2, 1894.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
Wm. St. John, living near Madisonville, one day recently was at
Pamplin's and
when he was about to leave for home, his horse became frightened and
ran. Mr. St. John was thrown from his buggy, and was so severely
injured that on
being conveyed to the depot, it was some days before he could be
conveyed home.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Smithville, VA,
Thursday, August 9, 1894.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA,
Thursday, May 2, 1929.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
Mr. Thomas Reamer, who was working on the new store building here, had the
misfortune of falling from the top of the building last week. He was not
seriously injured, however he received several bad gashes about the forehead
and nose, and suffered a dislocated shoulder. He fell about twenty-five feet,
landing on his hands and feet.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA,
Thursday, September 19, 1946.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
Samuel Thomas Holt was instantly killed in an automobile accident Friday
evening, September 6, about one mile west of his home at Phenix, on Route 40.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, September 8, at 3 o'clock at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Hugh B. Andrews, at Phenix. Rev. R.S. Booker conducted
the home service and he was assisted by Rev. F. Marion Dick with the committal
at Wickliffe cemetery, Brookneal, in the family section.
Mr. Holt was born Dcember 20, 1910, in Brookneal and was the son of the late
Samuel T. Holt and Mrs. Mollie Cathran Holt. He married Miss Margaret
Dodson and she and two sons, Wayne 6, and Jimmie Holt 3, survive. Mrs.
Holt and little son, Jimmie, were with Mr. Holt at the time of the accident,
and both were taken to Memorial hospital in Lynchburg. The little boy
received severe cuts about the head and is satisfactorily recovering, but Mrs.
Holt is still in the hospital, it is reported, with a broken vertebrae.
In addition to his wife and children, Mr. Holt is survived by five sisters:
Mrs. Hugh B. Andrews, Phenix; Mrs. Frank Lash, Richmond; Mrs. Roy Ferguson,
Victoria; Mrs. Guy Elder and Mrs. Clyde Davidson, all of Brookneal, and Mrs.
J.E. May, of Alexandria.
Active pallbearers were Garland Canada, Dick Harris, William Hamlett,
Carrol M.
Holt, Johnny Adams, William Hamlett and Claud Harris. Honorary
pallbearers were Elwood Holt, James Holt, Howard Gilliam, Ned Gilliam
Elwood Canada, Charles Berkley, Reed Berkley, Joe Canada, Lloyd Adams,
H.F.
Wilkins, Charlie Dodson, Ryland Pugh, Stuart Andrews, Berkley Andrews,
Billy
Andrews, Otha Moore, Marshall Roach, Burruss Roach.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA,
Thursday, September 19, 1964.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
Two South Hill men, S. Manuel Newcomb, 35, and Douglas Hart Roberts,
24, were killed instantly about 8 a.m. Tuesday, when the lumber truck in which
they were riding was struck by a trailer-truck on United States Route 1, two
miles north of McKinney. The two deaths sent the Virginia traffic toll to 526 for 1946.
Newcomb and Roberts, both employed by F.E. Watkins, of South Hill, were taking
a load of lumber to Curles Neck Farm, near Richmond. The big trailer-van,
loaded with 200 barrels of chemicals, was going from New Jersey to North
Carolina and the driver and two other men were in the cab at the time of the accident.
According to those at the scene of the accident, the lumber truck had pulled
entirely off the right side of the three-lane highway when it was struck by the
heavily laden trailer.
Both Newcomb and Roberts were so badly mangled that identification was
difficult.
State Trooper W.G. Mason, who investigated the crash, said the driver of the
van, 22-year-old Ferdinand Monus, whose address was not immediately determined
and who was unhurt in the wreck, has been freed on $5,000 bail to appear in
Mecklenburg Trial Justice Court to answer two charges of manslaughter in
connection with the deaths of Roberts and Newcomb. A date for the hearing
has not been set, he said.
Roberts, who was driving the lumber truck, was discharged from the Army in
March after serving overseas. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha
Jordan Roberts; a small daughter, his father, one brother and two
sisters. A funeral service for Roberts will be held at 1 a.m. Wednesday
at Tabernacle Baptist Church near South Hill.
Newcomb is survived by his wife, Mrs. Virginia Edgerton Newcomb; two small
daughters, his mother, Mrs. Marie Rutledge Newcomb, of Saxe, and one brother,
Burrell Newcomb of Saxe. The funeral was held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the
family cemetery at Saxe.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Charlotte Court House,
VA, Thursday, February 2, 1905.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
A Number of Others Injured More or Less Seriously - Passenger Train on Branch
of the Aberdeen & Asheboro Railroad Jumps the Track at a Sharp Curve Near
Troy Depot.
Troy, N.C., Special. - A passenger train on the Biscoe and Mt. Gilead branch of
the Aberdeen & Asheboro railroad, jumped the track here Tuesday
morning. Two coaches plunged from a ten-foot embankment and were
completely wrecked. Nearly every passenger on the train was hurt, one
fatally. The injured are:
Rev. G.A. Oglesby, pastor of Aberdeen Methodist Church, received internal
injuries, died during the day. David Cook, of Mt. Gilead, serious injuries. W.S.
Ingram, of Mt. Gilead, seriously hurt. D. Berry, of Wadesville, serious. Clark Ballard, of Mt. Gilead, and William
Dunn, of Mt. Gilead, injured but not seriously. The injured passengers were taken to the hotel here and given medical attention.
The wreck was caused by spreading rails. The train, which was due here
about 11:30 a.m., struck a sharp curve near the depot and left the track, two
cars pitching down the embankment. These cars were practically
demolished, but the balance of the train suffered little injury. The
road, which is a short line from Biscoe to Mt. Gilead, is a part of the
Aberdeen and Asheboro system, owned by the Pages.
Source: Charlotte Gazette, Smithfield, VA, Thursday,
May 11, 1905.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
Houston, Texas, Special. - A Galveston, Houston & Northern train, coming
from Galveston, left the track at a curve near Harrisburg, shortly before
midnight, the engine turning turtle, and taking all the coaches off.
Engineer Frank Cox was cremated under his engine. Fireman Daneton is
missing, and it is believed that he was also burned. While several of the
passengers were bruised, none were badly hurt. The coaches were wrecked and
caught fire, the train being nearly destroyed by fire. A spreading rail
caused the wreck.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA,
Thursday, June 27, 1946.
Submitted by: Bea. Adams King
Robert Flannagan, of Randolph, died in the Southside hospital Wednesday morning
as a result of injured received in an auto wreck at Cullen late Tuesday
night. Fulton Tucker, also of Saxe, and Miss Ruth Flesmman, of Red House,
two other occupants of the car are now in the Southside hospital, Tucker in
critical condition. Two other occupants of the car, whose names are not
available, were not seriously injured. The driver of the car, after crossing the railroad bridge in Cullen, failed to
make the curve at the forks of the road, and crashed head-on into a tree in
front of Ferguson's store.
Submitted By; Bea Adams King
They were Lee, Moses and Thomas Wiley, brothers; Belle
Wiley, wife of Thomas, and Will Jones, all of Darlington Heights, and Hassie
Morton of Pamplin. The men were all farm workers.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA., Thursday,
February 8, 1940
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
Police said the child had alighted from a school bus near
her home and had walked a short distance along the shoulder of the highway,
when she stepped into the path of a car driven by H.S. Breckenridge, of Mill
Dale, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Breckenridge was charged with involuntary manslaughter,
and was tried before Trial Justice Court, at Charlotte Court House Friday,
April 5. The case was sent to the Grand Jury
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA.,
Thursday, February 28, 1940
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
Old Charlotte (Taken from the Gazette files of 54 years
ago)
Burned To Death
We learn that a little colored girl, a child of George Bacon, living near Drakes Branch, was burned to death on Wednesday of last week. It appears that the child was trying to kindle a fire with kerosene oil from a lamp, when the lamp exploded. The childs clothes took fire and she was so badly burned that death resulted.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Smithville, Va., Thursday,
March 24, 1898
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA., Thursday,
July 27, 1944
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
The accident did not slow up or interfere with the work, and
at this writing they have not cleared the debris sufficiently to be able to
estimate the damage, which they do not expect to be very large. No one
was injured.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette,
Smithville, VA., 1999
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
Head-On
Collision Results In Fatalities
According
to State Trooper Warren Bowman, Jordan was driving a 1984 Oldsmobile west on
Rt. 40, .9 mile west of Rt. 645 around 5:40 p.m. when she crossed the center
line and struck Gwaltney who was operating a 1986 Subaru station wagon,
head-on.
According
to Trooper Bowman, Jordan was traveling without any headlights when the
accident occurred.
Speed was
a factor in the accident.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes
Branch, VA., Thursday, August 12, 1971
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
Gilbert K. Martin of Keysville was fatally injured early
Sunday morning in the car shown above. Mr. Martin was alone in the car at
the time of the non-collision accident.
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
Services Set For Victim In Shooting
SAXE - Funeral services for Harold E. Duffey, 29, an employe
of Virginia Crafts in Keysville will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Providence
Presbyterian Church near Clover, with burial there.
Duffey was killed by a shotgun blast Saturday night near
Saxe in Charlotte County. Police arrested Peter Martin, 33, a welder
employed in Richmond, and charged him with murder in connection with Duffey's
death.
Martin's mother, Mrs. Stover Louise Martin, and two other
men were reported to have been in Duffey's car in front of the Martin house
when the shotgun was fired. Mrs. Martin was wounded by the shot that
killed Duffey and was listed in satisfactory condition at a Richmond hospital.
Martin also was charged by Charlotte County Sheriff Frank Smith with
feloniously shooting his mother.
In the car but not injured were Bill Hudson and Carson
Newcomb, both of Saxe.
Duffey is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Watts Duffey; a
daughter, Miss Vickie Duffey; and two sons, Ronnie and Dean Duffey, all of
Saxe; his father Elgie W. Duffey of Camden, N.J.; and three brothers, Elgie W.
Duffey Jr. of Drakes Branch and Russell and Ray Duffey, both of Camden.
Source:
The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA., Thursday, April 5, 1928.
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
MR. HERBERT IN HOSPITAL
Mr. J.H. Herbert, of The
Charlotte Gazette, is in a hospital in South Boston, suffering from a sprained
ankle. The accident occurred last Saturday when Mr. Herbert alighted from
the train at South Boston.
7 Men Blown to Peices on
Tidewater Ry.
At 1:30 o'clock on
Tuesday, June 25th, a box of dynamite exploded in the cut on Tidewater Ry, near
Tola and seven men were blown to peices, and many others injured. Those
killed were--
Mr. Sullivan, foreman of
the gang, and a brother-in-law of Mr. Johnston of the Construction Co.
Mr. Clark, a nephew of
W.D. Clark, Supervisor of Midway district.
Four Italians.
One Russian.
The number of injured is
variously reported, some putting it as high as 13, and it is expected some are
fatally hurt.
The cause of the
explosion is unknown. A box of dynamite around which the gang were
working, and on which Sullivan was sitting, went off, hurling portions of
bodies arms, legs, heads, in every direction, so that the human fragments were
picked up in a bag. The Company rushed assistance to the scene at once,
and all possible was done for the injured.
The explosion was
terrible, the force being felt for miles.
Source:
The Charlotte Gazette, Charlotte Court House, VA., Thursday, June 26, 1873.
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
Source:
The Charlotte Gazette, Charlotte Court House, VA., Thursday, May 22, 1873.
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
Source:
The Charlotte Gazette, Charlotte Court House, VA., Thursday, June 26, 1873.
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
These sad evidences of
our mortality, following so soon upon the lamented loss of Mrs. Geo. C. Hannah,
are calculated to impress us with the consciousness of the rapidity with which
our lives are passing, and the importance of preparation for the immortality
beyond.
Source:
The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA., Thursday, March 7, 1946.
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
Three More Die On
Highways; Toll Is 119
Three more deaths from
automobile accidents on Virginia highways were reported Monday sending the
State motor death toll to 119 for 1946.
Thomas Watkins
Hazlewood, 35, of Halifax County, was killed instantly Monday morning when the
automobile he was driving was struck by a Norfolk and Western Railway train, at
a private crossing just off Route 626 in Halifax County.
William Roy Demoss, 14,
no address listed, was killed instantly Monday morning when struck by an
automobile on Route 57, three miles from Martinsville.
James Walter McKay, 16,
of near Farmville, was killed instantly Sunday night in a noncollision (non-collision) automobile accident
on Route 460, eight miles east of Farmville
Newspaper: The Charlotte Gazette, Smithville, VA.,
Thursday, November 2, 1944
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
H.W.
Watkins Has Slight Accident.
H.W.
Watkins, formerly of Drakes Branch, now of Fork Union, was taken to a hospital
at Charlottesville Thursday of last week, to be treated for a slight wound.
Mr. Watkins is a guard at the Virginia Electric and Power Company at
Bremo Bluff, and while cleaning his revolver accidentally shot himself through
the calf of his leg. He was very weak from loss of blood and will probably
remain in the hospital until next week.
Newspaper: The Charlotte Gazette, Charlotte Court House,
VA., Thursday, May 29, 1873
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
ACCIDENT. - We regret to state that our esteemed friend and fellow citizen, Mr. Thomas East, met with a serious accident on Saturday evening last. He was passing out of his porch, when slipping upon a rotten plank covering a potatoe hole, it broke, and he was thrown down violently striking his shoulder against the stone wall. He was much bruised, but providentially no bones were broken.
Source: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA.,
Thursday, October 1, 1925
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
GIRL SHOOTS BROTHER
Thinking to have a
little fun with his sister, Callie Marshall (colored) who lives at Randolph, Tucker
Marshall went to her home Sunday night about 8:30 o'clock, and refusing to tell
his name frightened her so that she fired at the "unknown" intruder,
and fatally injured him. He died early Monday morning.
Newspaper: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA.,
Thursday, March 16, 1939
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
WEATHERFORD KILLED
BY HIT-AND-RUN CAR
Funeral services
were conducted at the grave for Repps Weatherford Tuesday afternoon,
at 2:30 by Rev. M.M. Austin, at Cool Springs. Weatherford was a
victim of hit-and-run driver, Sunday evening around 6:30. The accident
occurred in front of the planing mill, operated by the Victoria Supply Company.
According to the officers investigating the accident. No clues were
found at the scene and no progress has been made in the case.
The pallbearers were Thomas
Clements, W.S. Robertson, O.L. Harris, W.C. Hardy, John
Carver, W. L. Harris. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ida
L. Williams and Mrs. Verna M. Tatum of Richmond; three
brothers, H.B. Weatherford of Richmond
and William and Via Weatherford of Lunenburg County; two
sisters, Mrs. Beulah Rutledge and Mrs. Annie Wright of
Lunenburg County, and four grandchildren.
Newspaper: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA.,
Thursday, May 25, 1933
Submitted By: Bea Adams King
MR. AND MRS. J.B. VAUGHN INURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Vaughn, of near Keysville, were
slightly injured Tuesday afternoon, in an automobile accident on the Amelia
road near Richmond. Both were treated for cuts and bruises at the
Memorial hospital in Richmond. Mr. Vaughn returned Wednesday while Mrs.
Vaughn remained at the hospital.
Newspaper: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA., Thursday,
July 8, 1943
Submitted
By: Bea Adams King
Complete Story of The 'Plane Crash At Saxe Thursday
The following is a complete story of the plane crash that
occurred at Saxe last Wednesday as given out by the War Department last
Thursday:
The department said four of the officers were attached to
the operation staff of the Army War College and were en route to Washington
from the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga.
They were:
Col. Kameil Maertens, 2737 Devonshire place N.W.
Col. Richard L. Baughman, 3105 Macomb street N.W.
Lt. Col. Felix A. Todd, Jr., 212 Granville drive, Silver
Spring, Md.
Lt. Col. Milton H. Pressley, Jr., 2513 South Twenty-seventh
street, Arlington, Va.
The pilot Maj. William M. Marks Jr., Montgomery, Ala., and
co-pilot, Staff Sergt. William Evans, Jr., Peekville, Pa., also were killed.
The department said the plane took off from Fort Benning
Wednesday afternoon, refueled at Charlotte, N.C., and was due in Washington
about 11 o'clock Wednesday night.
Officers from Camp Pickett, Va., assigned to investigate the
accident, reported that the plane circled, dropped a flare and attempted to
land in a field, then hit a rise in the ground and burst into flames. No
indication was given of the cause of the attempted emergency landing.
All four of the local officers were attached to headquarters
of the Army Ground Forces at the War College.
Col. Maertens, who was a native of Belgium, was known as one
of the outstanding small arms experts of the Army. He was a member of the
Infantry Rifle Team, and a distinguished rifleman.
He had been in the
Army since the first World War, and had service ????? posts.
He is survived by his wife and three sons, Lt. James
Maertens, an instructor at the Infantry School, Fort Benning; Lt. George
Maertens, of the Tank Destroyer Command, at Camp Hood, Tex., and Thomas
Maertens, a cadet at the Military Academy, West Point.
Col. Baugham was a graduate of the Military Academy, and had
been an instructor at the infantry school for about three years before coming
to Washington for service at headquarters of the ground forces. He was a
small arms expert and taught the mechanics and marksmanship of the M-1, Garand
Rifle.
Saw Wider Service
Lt. Col. Todd, a graduate of West Point in 1927, served at
Fort Sam Houston, Tex., the Philippines, Fort Benning, Ga., and Panama before
coming to Washington. He is survived by his widow and two children, Ellen
and Alex. Burial will be at San Antonio, Tex.
Lt. Col. Pressley, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., was
graduated from West Point in 1931 and had seen duty at several posts prior to
his assignment here. He is survived by his widow and a daughter, Hulit.
Washington Post.
Newspaper: The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA., Thursday,
July 1, 1943
Submitted
By: Bea Adams King
Plane Crashed Near Saxe About 10 P.M. Wednesday
Wednesday night about 10 o'clock an army plane crashed on
the old state farm at Saxe. From what we can gather the pilot must have
had trouble for the plane circled around Saxe for several minutes before trying
to make a forced landing. Flares were dropped and when the plane landed
it nosed into an embankment and exploded.
From what can be learned from four to six men were aboard.
It was also rumored that one of the men's wife was with them. Of
course none can be identified as only small parts of the bodied could be found.
It's origins and destination has not been learned as yet.