Death Certificate 19826 indicates that he was 46 years old, resided on Route 4 Carthage and worked at the local powder mill west of Carthage.
His death was accidental and was attributed to an explosion in the powder mill.
He was buried under the direction of Knell Mortuary
Marriage to Maude Hartley Oct 26, 1902, at age 21, in Masters, Cedar, Missouri
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Informant was Mrs. Maude Adams Carthage Route 4
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS,CARTHAGE,MO -JUN 08 1926 PG2 COL1
Four died in the Hercules Powder Plant, five miles southwest of Carthage Missouri when 2,000 pounds powder in punch house blow up just before noon.
Killed were: Parker Holderby, Frank Adams, James Richardson and Albert C. White.
All lived southeast of Carthage, they were only workers in structure and cause of terrific explosion which rocked Carthage and nearby towns, is unknown.
All married and leave families Albert White, one of victims meets death on his 21st birthday anniversary.
The dead: James Richardson, foreman, aged 36, residing near the powder mill; Frank Adams, trucker, 46, residing at Pleasant Valley; Albert C. White, punch house helper, aged 21, residing near Lakeside; Parker Holderby, punch house helper, aged 35, residing near Black's Crossing.
No one else was hurt. The four men were working in the house at the time.
Fred Bernard, line foreman, had left the building ten minutes before. Mr. Adams, the trucker, had just left a mix house with a push car loaded with powder for the other building a few moments before the explosion and believed to have just reached the punch house when the explosion occurred.
The circumstance causing the explosion is undetermined.
Killed on 21st Birthday: Mr. White, the youngest of the accident victims, died on his birthday.
He was born June 7, 1905. Surviving him are his wife and one small child, the house being near Lakeside. White had been employed at the plant two years.
Mr. Richardson, the foreman, has worked at the powder plant most of his life.
He has been back at the plant the last time six years, the company's records show.
Surviving him are his wife, Myrtle Richardson and three small sons, Junior Richardson, Paul Richardson and Carl Edward Richardson.
Their home is within a block of the private road entrance to the Hercules grounds.
Note: Mr. Richardson was buried in the Park Cemetery, Carthage Missouri.
Mr. Adams, the trucker, had been employed at the plant five years.
He is survived by his wife and four children. The children are Irene Adams, Gene Adams and Henry Adams at home and a married daughter, Lora, of Aurora.
Surviving Mr. Holderby are his wife and two children, Myradel Holderby, aged 9 and Aline Holderby, 7. He has been employed at the plant two years.
Bodies Were Torn to Bits.
Identification of the pieces of the bodies, which were gathered up from a radius mostly within 50 feet of the building, was not generally possible.
Occasionally a hand or a bit of hair could be recognized.
A considerable portion of the trunk of Mr. Adams' body was found.
Fellow workmen performed the gruesome task of gathering up the bits.
They were placed in special carrier boxes and were carried to the office about 1 hour after the explosion.
The Knell morticians of Carthage were called and took charge of the bodies, bringing them to the Knell Mortuary here.
An inquest will be held tomorrow morning beginning at 11 or 11:30 o'clock.
The explosion was plainly heard and felt in Carthage, but did no damage here so far as learned.
The explosion is said to have been more forcibly felt at Carterville and Webb City.
Window lights were broken out in the vicinity of the powder mill and in some of the other buildings at the plant.
Pieces of the wrecked machinery and rocks, limbs from nearby trees and other debris were showered far over a considerable radius.
A number of workers out in the open were knocked down by the explosion, but jumped up and ran for safety as things began showering down about them.
The barricades about the cartridge houses and mix houses, the two units of the powder plants most likely to blow up, are erected with a view of throwing the wreckage into the air as much as possible, rather than in all directions on the ground.
The spot where the cartridge house stood this morning was cleaned of all machinery by the explosion, bits of the wreckage being scattered through the timber and weeds for a considerable distance.
It was some time after the explosion this morning before any information could be obtained from the plant.
As soon as the details were learned by employees and officials time was given to notifying relatives before any announcement was made to the public.
So far as possible families of workmen who were not hurt also were notified by telephone.
Admittance to the grounds was refused to the public and to newspaper representatives.
Today's tragedy at the plant is the first explosion resulting in fatalities in 12 years.
Alfred Van Dyke and Eugene Tally, two Carthage men, were killed December 9, 1914, when a separator house blew up.
Five years ago a mix house blew up, but the workers noticed a peculiar blaze in the powder and fled to safety.
The building which blew up this morning is a plant in which newly-made powder is packed into the heavy paper containers.
It is approximately 200 yards distant from any other building and the plant office.
The structure, because of the possibilities of such explosions is built into the side of a bluff, which heavy cement barricades on three sides .
It is a building about 20 by 25 feet in size. It contains valuable machinery, the plant damage done this morning being estimated at $25,000 or $30,000 it is said, officials declining to give any figure.
The building was erected 14 years ago.
It is one of four such structures at the plant, two being on the dynamite line and two on the gelatin line, but one of the latter now remaining.
The remaining cartridge house has not been in operation recently, but will be used when operations are resumed.
Operating were suspended following the tragedy today.
From three to five men are employed in the cartridge houses.
His death was accidental and was attributed to an explosion in the powder mill.
He was buried under the direction of Knell Mortuary
Marriage to Maude Hartley Oct 26, 1902, at age 21, in Masters, Cedar, Missouri
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Informant was Mrs. Maude Adams Carthage Route 4
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS,CARTHAGE,MO -JUN 08 1926 PG2 COL1
Four died in the Hercules Powder Plant, five miles southwest of Carthage Missouri when 2,000 pounds powder in punch house blow up just before noon.
Killed were: Parker Holderby, Frank Adams, James Richardson and Albert C. White.
All lived southeast of Carthage, they were only workers in structure and cause of terrific explosion which rocked Carthage and nearby towns, is unknown.
All married and leave families Albert White, one of victims meets death on his 21st birthday anniversary.
The dead: James Richardson, foreman, aged 36, residing near the powder mill; Frank Adams, trucker, 46, residing at Pleasant Valley; Albert C. White, punch house helper, aged 21, residing near Lakeside; Parker Holderby, punch house helper, aged 35, residing near Black's Crossing.
No one else was hurt. The four men were working in the house at the time.
Fred Bernard, line foreman, had left the building ten minutes before. Mr. Adams, the trucker, had just left a mix house with a push car loaded with powder for the other building a few moments before the explosion and believed to have just reached the punch house when the explosion occurred.
The circumstance causing the explosion is undetermined.
Killed on 21st Birthday: Mr. White, the youngest of the accident victims, died on his birthday.
He was born June 7, 1905. Surviving him are his wife and one small child, the house being near Lakeside. White had been employed at the plant two years.
Mr. Richardson, the foreman, has worked at the powder plant most of his life.
He has been back at the plant the last time six years, the company's records show.
Surviving him are his wife, Myrtle Richardson and three small sons, Junior Richardson, Paul Richardson and Carl Edward Richardson.
Their home is within a block of the private road entrance to the Hercules grounds.
Note: Mr. Richardson was buried in the Park Cemetery, Carthage Missouri.
Mr. Adams, the trucker, had been employed at the plant five years.
He is survived by his wife and four children. The children are Irene Adams, Gene Adams and Henry Adams at home and a married daughter, Lora, of Aurora.
Surviving Mr. Holderby are his wife and two children, Myradel Holderby, aged 9 and Aline Holderby, 7. He has been employed at the plant two years.
Bodies Were Torn to Bits.
Identification of the pieces of the bodies, which were gathered up from a radius mostly within 50 feet of the building, was not generally possible.
Occasionally a hand or a bit of hair could be recognized.
A considerable portion of the trunk of Mr. Adams' body was found.
Fellow workmen performed the gruesome task of gathering up the bits.
They were placed in special carrier boxes and were carried to the office about 1 hour after the explosion.
The Knell morticians of Carthage were called and took charge of the bodies, bringing them to the Knell Mortuary here.
An inquest will be held tomorrow morning beginning at 11 or 11:30 o'clock.
The explosion was plainly heard and felt in Carthage, but did no damage here so far as learned.
The explosion is said to have been more forcibly felt at Carterville and Webb City.
Window lights were broken out in the vicinity of the powder mill and in some of the other buildings at the plant.
Pieces of the wrecked machinery and rocks, limbs from nearby trees and other debris were showered far over a considerable radius.
A number of workers out in the open were knocked down by the explosion, but jumped up and ran for safety as things began showering down about them.
The barricades about the cartridge houses and mix houses, the two units of the powder plants most likely to blow up, are erected with a view of throwing the wreckage into the air as much as possible, rather than in all directions on the ground.
The spot where the cartridge house stood this morning was cleaned of all machinery by the explosion, bits of the wreckage being scattered through the timber and weeds for a considerable distance.
It was some time after the explosion this morning before any information could be obtained from the plant.
As soon as the details were learned by employees and officials time was given to notifying relatives before any announcement was made to the public.
So far as possible families of workmen who were not hurt also were notified by telephone.
Admittance to the grounds was refused to the public and to newspaper representatives.
Today's tragedy at the plant is the first explosion resulting in fatalities in 12 years.
Alfred Van Dyke and Eugene Tally, two Carthage men, were killed December 9, 1914, when a separator house blew up.
Five years ago a mix house blew up, but the workers noticed a peculiar blaze in the powder and fled to safety.
The building which blew up this morning is a plant in which newly-made powder is packed into the heavy paper containers.
It is approximately 200 yards distant from any other building and the plant office.
The structure, because of the possibilities of such explosions is built into the side of a bluff, which heavy cement barricades on three sides .
It is a building about 20 by 25 feet in size. It contains valuable machinery, the plant damage done this morning being estimated at $25,000 or $30,000 it is said, officials declining to give any figure.
The building was erected 14 years ago.
It is one of four such structures at the plant, two being on the dynamite line and two on the gelatin line, but one of the latter now remaining.
The remaining cartridge house has not been in operation recently, but will be used when operations are resumed.
Operating were suspended following the tragedy today.
From three to five men are employed in the cartridge houses.
Death Certificate 19826 indicates that he was 46 years old, resided on Route 4 Carthage and worked at the local powder mill west of Carthage.
His death was accidental and was attributed to an explosion in the powder mill.
He was buried under the direction of Knell Mortuary
Marriage to Maude Hartley Oct 26, 1902, at age 21, in Masters, Cedar, Missouri
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Informant was Mrs. Maude Adams Carthage Route 4
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS,CARTHAGE,MO -JUN 08 1926 PG2 COL1
Four died in the Hercules Powder Plant, five miles southwest of Carthage Missouri when 2,000 pounds powder in punch house blow up just before noon.
Killed were: Parker Holderby, Frank Adams, James Richardson and Albert C. White.
All lived southeast of Carthage, they were only workers in structure and cause of terrific explosion which rocked Carthage and nearby towns, is unknown.
All married and leave families Albert White, one of victims meets death on his 21st birthday anniversary.
The dead: James Richardson, foreman, aged 36, residing near the powder mill; Frank Adams, trucker, 46, residing at Pleasant Valley; Albert C. White, punch house helper, aged 21, residing near Lakeside; Parker Holderby, punch house helper, aged 35, residing near Black's Crossing.
No one else was hurt. The four men were working in the house at the time.
Fred Bernard, line foreman, had left the building ten minutes before. Mr. Adams, the trucker, had just left a mix house with a push car loaded with powder for the other building a few moments before the explosion and believed to have just reached the punch house when the explosion occurred.
The circumstance causing the explosion is undetermined.
Killed on 21st Birthday: Mr. White, the youngest of the accident victims, died on his birthday.
He was born June 7, 1905. Surviving him are his wife and one small child, the house being near Lakeside. White had been employed at the plant two years.
Mr. Richardson, the foreman, has worked at the powder plant most of his life.
He has been back at the plant the last time six years, the company's records show.
Surviving him are his wife, Myrtle Richardson and three small sons, Junior Richardson, Paul Richardson and Carl Edward Richardson.
Their home is within a block of the private road entrance to the Hercules grounds.
Note: Mr. Richardson was buried in the Park Cemetery, Carthage Missouri.
Mr. Adams, the trucker, had been employed at the plant five years.
He is survived by his wife and four children. The children are Irene Adams, Gene Adams and Henry Adams at home and a married daughter, Lora, of Aurora.
Surviving Mr. Holderby are his wife and two children, Myradel Holderby, aged 9 and Aline Holderby, 7. He has been employed at the plant two years.
Bodies Were Torn to Bits.
Identification of the pieces of the bodies, which were gathered up from a radius mostly within 50 feet of the building, was not generally possible.
Occasionally a hand or a bit of hair could be recognized.
A considerable portion of the trunk of Mr. Adams' body was found.
Fellow workmen performed the gruesome task of gathering up the bits.
They were placed in special carrier boxes and were carried to the office about 1 hour after the explosion.
The Knell morticians of Carthage were called and took charge of the bodies, bringing them to the Knell Mortuary here.
An inquest will be held tomorrow morning beginning at 11 or 11:30 o'clock.
The explosion was plainly heard and felt in Carthage, but did no damage here so far as learned.
The explosion is said to have been more forcibly felt at Carterville and Webb City.
Window lights were broken out in the vicinity of the powder mill and in some of the other buildings at the plant.
Pieces of the wrecked machinery and rocks, limbs from nearby trees and other debris were showered far over a considerable radius.
A number of workers out in the open were knocked down by the explosion, but jumped up and ran for safety as things began showering down about them.
The barricades about the cartridge houses and mix houses, the two units of the powder plants most likely to blow up, are erected with a view of throwing the wreckage into the air as much as possible, rather than in all directions on the ground.
The spot where the cartridge house stood this morning was cleaned of all machinery by the explosion, bits of the wreckage being scattered through the timber and weeds for a considerable distance.
It was some time after the explosion this morning before any information could be obtained from the plant.
As soon as the details were learned by employees and officials time was given to notifying relatives before any announcement was made to the public.
So far as possible families of workmen who were not hurt also were notified by telephone.
Admittance to the grounds was refused to the public and to newspaper representatives.
Today's tragedy at the plant is the first explosion resulting in fatalities in 12 years.
Alfred Van Dyke and Eugene Tally, two Carthage men, were killed December 9, 1914, when a separator house blew up.
Five years ago a mix house blew up, but the workers noticed a peculiar blaze in the powder and fled to safety.
The building which blew up this morning is a plant in which newly-made powder is packed into the heavy paper containers.
It is approximately 200 yards distant from any other building and the plant office.
The structure, because of the possibilities of such explosions is built into the side of a bluff, which heavy cement barricades on three sides .
It is a building about 20 by 25 feet in size. It contains valuable machinery, the plant damage done this morning being estimated at $25,000 or $30,000 it is said, officials declining to give any figure.
The building was erected 14 years ago.
It is one of four such structures at the plant, two being on the dynamite line and two on the gelatin line, but one of the latter now remaining.
The remaining cartridge house has not been in operation recently, but will be used when operations are resumed.
Operating were suspended following the tragedy today.
From three to five men are employed in the cartridge houses.
His death was accidental and was attributed to an explosion in the powder mill.
He was buried under the direction of Knell Mortuary
Marriage to Maude Hartley Oct 26, 1902, at age 21, in Masters, Cedar, Missouri
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Informant was Mrs. Maude Adams Carthage Route 4
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS,CARTHAGE,MO -JUN 08 1926 PG2 COL1
Four died in the Hercules Powder Plant, five miles southwest of Carthage Missouri when 2,000 pounds powder in punch house blow up just before noon.
Killed were: Parker Holderby, Frank Adams, James Richardson and Albert C. White.
All lived southeast of Carthage, they were only workers in structure and cause of terrific explosion which rocked Carthage and nearby towns, is unknown.
All married and leave families Albert White, one of victims meets death on his 21st birthday anniversary.
The dead: James Richardson, foreman, aged 36, residing near the powder mill; Frank Adams, trucker, 46, residing at Pleasant Valley; Albert C. White, punch house helper, aged 21, residing near Lakeside; Parker Holderby, punch house helper, aged 35, residing near Black's Crossing.
No one else was hurt. The four men were working in the house at the time.
Fred Bernard, line foreman, had left the building ten minutes before. Mr. Adams, the trucker, had just left a mix house with a push car loaded with powder for the other building a few moments before the explosion and believed to have just reached the punch house when the explosion occurred.
The circumstance causing the explosion is undetermined.
Killed on 21st Birthday: Mr. White, the youngest of the accident victims, died on his birthday.
He was born June 7, 1905. Surviving him are his wife and one small child, the house being near Lakeside. White had been employed at the plant two years.
Mr. Richardson, the foreman, has worked at the powder plant most of his life.
He has been back at the plant the last time six years, the company's records show.
Surviving him are his wife, Myrtle Richardson and three small sons, Junior Richardson, Paul Richardson and Carl Edward Richardson.
Their home is within a block of the private road entrance to the Hercules grounds.
Note: Mr. Richardson was buried in the Park Cemetery, Carthage Missouri.
Mr. Adams, the trucker, had been employed at the plant five years.
He is survived by his wife and four children. The children are Irene Adams, Gene Adams and Henry Adams at home and a married daughter, Lora, of Aurora.
Surviving Mr. Holderby are his wife and two children, Myradel Holderby, aged 9 and Aline Holderby, 7. He has been employed at the plant two years.
Bodies Were Torn to Bits.
Identification of the pieces of the bodies, which were gathered up from a radius mostly within 50 feet of the building, was not generally possible.
Occasionally a hand or a bit of hair could be recognized.
A considerable portion of the trunk of Mr. Adams' body was found.
Fellow workmen performed the gruesome task of gathering up the bits.
They were placed in special carrier boxes and were carried to the office about 1 hour after the explosion.
The Knell morticians of Carthage were called and took charge of the bodies, bringing them to the Knell Mortuary here.
An inquest will be held tomorrow morning beginning at 11 or 11:30 o'clock.
The explosion was plainly heard and felt in Carthage, but did no damage here so far as learned.
The explosion is said to have been more forcibly felt at Carterville and Webb City.
Window lights were broken out in the vicinity of the powder mill and in some of the other buildings at the plant.
Pieces of the wrecked machinery and rocks, limbs from nearby trees and other debris were showered far over a considerable radius.
A number of workers out in the open were knocked down by the explosion, but jumped up and ran for safety as things began showering down about them.
The barricades about the cartridge houses and mix houses, the two units of the powder plants most likely to blow up, are erected with a view of throwing the wreckage into the air as much as possible, rather than in all directions on the ground.
The spot where the cartridge house stood this morning was cleaned of all machinery by the explosion, bits of the wreckage being scattered through the timber and weeds for a considerable distance.
It was some time after the explosion this morning before any information could be obtained from the plant.
As soon as the details were learned by employees and officials time was given to notifying relatives before any announcement was made to the public.
So far as possible families of workmen who were not hurt also were notified by telephone.
Admittance to the grounds was refused to the public and to newspaper representatives.
Today's tragedy at the plant is the first explosion resulting in fatalities in 12 years.
Alfred Van Dyke and Eugene Tally, two Carthage men, were killed December 9, 1914, when a separator house blew up.
Five years ago a mix house blew up, but the workers noticed a peculiar blaze in the powder and fled to safety.
The building which blew up this morning is a plant in which newly-made powder is packed into the heavy paper containers.
It is approximately 200 yards distant from any other building and the plant office.
The structure, because of the possibilities of such explosions is built into the side of a bluff, which heavy cement barricades on three sides .
It is a building about 20 by 25 feet in size. It contains valuable machinery, the plant damage done this morning being estimated at $25,000 or $30,000 it is said, officials declining to give any figure.
The building was erected 14 years ago.
It is one of four such structures at the plant, two being on the dynamite line and two on the gelatin line, but one of the latter now remaining.
The remaining cartridge house has not been in operation recently, but will be used when operations are resumed.
Operating were suspended following the tragedy today.
From three to five men are employed in the cartridge houses.
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