Hobbs, New Mexico Explosion
June
23, 1938
SEVEN KILLED, FIVE HURT IN NITRO BLAST IN
NEW MEXICO
Hobbs, N. M., June 23, - (AP) – Seven men,
including a prominent New Mexico financier, were
killed and fire seriously injured today in the
premature explosion of a nitroglycerin time bomb
with which a drilling crew was preparing to
“shoot” an oil well near here.
The list of dead, so badly seared and mangled
that identification at first was difficult:
GEORGE A. KASEMAN,
about 65, president of the Albuquerque, N. M.
National Trust and Savings bank of the
Albuquerque and Cerrillos Coal company, with
mines at Madrid, N. M.
H. A. GREER, gauger, for the shooting
crew
J. T. BROUGHTON, a derrickman.
FORREST HUSTON, rigman.
CHARLES WRIGLEY, rigman.
ALEX BLAIR, shooter’s helper.
V. B. PECK, shooter.
All of the dead except
Kaseman were residents of Hobbs and
vicinity.
The injured: Fred
Luthey, Albuquerque, N. M. vice
president of the Albuquerque National Trust and
Savings bank; eye lost, other serious injury.
Herman Crile, Roswell, N.M.,
attorney.
Jack Starkey, Hobbs, superintendent
of the Two-State Drilling company.
J. B. Headley, Roswell, independent
geologist.
Ole Johnson, rigman.
Associates said that
Kaseman was financially interested in
the well, in the rich Monument district
southwest of here, and had come here with
Luthey, Headly and Crile
to inspect it.
The Helena Independent, Helena, MT 24 Jun
1938
Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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