Agawam, Massachusetts, USA (Feeding Hills)
1908 - THREE KILLED IN EXPLOSION. Dynamite That Was Placed on a Steam Pipe Became Overheated.

AGAWAM, Mass., Sept. 8. - Three men were killed and six others injured by the explosion of twenty pounds of dynamite on Provin Mountain, near the place where a contracting company is building a distributing reservoir in connection with the Springfield water supply system.

The dead are Richard Plater, Antonio Mitta, and Joseph Bello, all laborers. Plater was a negro and the others were Italians. Fred Lovett, another laborer, received injuries which are expected to result in his death.

Dynamite that was placed on a pipe that supplied steam for a drill became overheated and exploded.

The New York Times
New York, New York
September 9, 1908

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