Arizona Republican, Phoenix, AZ, October 13, 1920, p. 2. TWO DEAD RESULT OF EXPLOSION AT ROOSEVELT PLANT Globe, Ariz., Oct. 12-Lewis Allen, age 22, and Leroy Spurling, aged 28, died this morning at eight o'clock at a local hospital as a result of burns received at the Roosevelt power house near here. The men were employed at the plant as tender and operator and when they made an effort last night to turn on an oil switch an explosion followed saturating their clothes and bodies with oil that immediately ignited by a spark from the switch. The skin and flesh of both men were burned to a crisp. They were given first aid at Roosevelt and rushed to Globe and placed in a hospital. Spurling was unconscious and both died about four hours after arriving here. Allen's parents and relatives live in Phoenix. They arrived here this afternoon. The parents and relatives of Spurling, with the exception of a brother at Roosevelt, live at Seymour, Ind.