This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rankin Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8449 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 04 Oct 1899, p.10 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Lon Rankin Killed He Met Death as the Result of an Explosion at Little River Cameron, Tex., 3 Oct – Lou Rankin of Brownwood met a tragic death this afternoon at Little River, near here. He was on his way home traveling in a wagon and stopped for the night. He went to the river’s edge with a can in which there was an explosive substance and tried to light the can. It exploded and threw Mr. Rankin into the river, causing instant death. Deceased was the son of Editor Rankin of the Brenham Banner and leaves a wife and child at Brownwood. Brenham, Tex., 3 Oct – Mr. John G. Rankin of this city has just received the sad news by telephone of the death of his eldest son, Alonzo G. Rankin, in a most horrible manner near Cameron today. He has been traveling giving entertainments with a stereopticon. He was here on the first and had an electric generator attached to this machine and went north. In experimenting with the generator it exploded and literally tore the unfortunate man into shreds.