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Tarrytown, NY Skull Fractured by Sky Rocket, Jul 1904

SKULL FRACTURED BY SKY ROCKET.

TARRYTOWN, N. Y., July 6.---Ralph E. West, Secretary of the Diamond Match Company is dying at the country home of D. G. Red, the millionaire steel manufacturer, Irving, as the result of a fracture of the skull inflicted on Monday night by the stick of a skyrocket.

Wilkes-Barre Times, Wilkes-Barre, PA 6 Jul 1904
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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