Hi Ed, I recently subscribed to genealogybank.com which is a newspaper search site. No papers from the area of Weakley County, but sensational items tended to be picked up and carried across the country, so where no newspaper account may exist in the actual community anymore, it may still exist in another part of the country whose newspapers of that time survived. The wonderful thing about Weakley County is that there is no other county of that name in the U. S. so any search results were pay dirt from the start. I also used Dresden, Tenn. as a search term since I thought it was less common than other town names. Guess I should go back and try Gleason, Martin and some of the other towns, too. You would think something as newsworthy (sensational) as an explosion would have been picked up by other papers and still exist in print somewhere else. I didn't transcribe every story as they number in the hundreds, but chose the ones that might offer genealogical information only. I will definitely go back and check to see if the story you need is still around somewhere didn't show up because of the search terms I used. Peggy M. T. In a message dated 1/30/2011 11:53:22 P.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Peggy, Thanks you so much for the fine work on the old newspaper articles. Please tell us where we can search. I have been a member of the Weakley list for a number of years. I have been in search for any article about an accident at the Martin Roller Mill, date 17 March 1885. A cousin, Robert M Nethercott was killed in that accident. This was noted in the family Bible. Robert was only 20 years of age. I have been successful tracing his family after his marriage. He and Virginia A Kennedy were married 10 Dec 1884. Their baby, Robbie Nethercott, was born in November 1885. All this has been found but I have been unable to find anything about this accident. Please tell me where I can do some searching or if you find anything please share. Thank you so very much Ed Cardinal [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message