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Explosion linked to shoe as gas blast kills workers
Weeks was one of ten killed in the January 27 1953 Jones Electric explosion. Owner Jimmy Jones started the business that morning and opened the basement vent to exhaust gas when a switch sparked the blast. He survived but colleagues perished. Bob Osbon a then junior at Aiken High photographed the devastation, his image later distributed widely.
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Jones Electric
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Jones
Bob Osbon
Aiken High School
Trinity Lutheran Home
Osbon
Greenville
Harry Triloppe
Rocky Owens
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