Beatrice Daily Sun - Sep. 26, 1964
Four men were dead and a fifth presumed dead following a string of explosions that ripped through concrete storage silos in the Utah-Idaho Company's $7 million beet sugar factory Wednesday. Two other men were unaccounted for and seven others injured. The state patrol tentatively listed the dead as John Henry, Al Lapp, James Ivan Cain, Leonard Abel and Al Hodson. Hodson's body had not been found. Cain, 52, of Wenatchee, was born in Beatrice, Oct. 9, 1911.
He is survived by his widow, Eva; one son, Ivan 11; daughter, Janette, 16; and two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Ball and Mrs. John Vontz, both of Beatrice. Funeral services and burial will be held Saturday at Wenatchee.
Beatrice Daily Sun - Sep. 26, 1964
Four men were dead and a fifth presumed dead following a string of explosions that ripped through concrete storage silos in the Utah-Idaho Company's $7 million beet sugar factory Wednesday. Two other men were unaccounted for and seven others injured. The state patrol tentatively listed the dead as John Henry, Al Lapp, James Ivan Cain, Leonard Abel and Al Hodson. Hodson's body had not been found. Cain, 52, of Wenatchee, was born in Beatrice, Oct. 9, 1911.
He is survived by his widow, Eva; one son, Ivan 11; daughter, Janette, 16; and two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Ball and Mrs. John Vontz, both of Beatrice. Funeral services and burial will be held Saturday at Wenatchee.
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