The Whitewright Sun
Thursday, November 30, 1944
pg. 1

WHITEWRIGHT ASKED FOR BLOOD DONORS
An emergency blood collection for civilian use has been announced for December 12 at the Travis Street Methodist Church in Sherman, under sponsorship of the Grayson County medical auxiliary.
Whitewright has been asked to furnish 10 donors at 2:40 p.m. on the above date.  Mrs. Ross H. May is in charge at Whitewright and asks all who will furnish blood to notify her at once, as it is important to have this information at the earliest possible date.
The purpose of the collection is to replenish the county plasma supply now depleted by use in treatment of victims in the Denison butane gas explosion.  Blood plasma is needed on the home front as well as on the war front.  When the supply is replenished every citizen of the county who needs blood plasma will be furnished it at a cost of only $5.00 per unit.  Without blood donors the cost would be $35.00
Those willing to donate blood for this purpose are requested to notify Mrs. May, so she may be able to make appointment for the Whitewright group and to let the county committee know the number to prepare for.

The Denison Press
Friday, December 1, 1944
pg. 1

TEN DEATHS LAST COUNT BUTANE GAS
Denison and other cities this past week were admixing burial services with the dying hours of additional sufferers from the butane gas blast which occurred Tuesday, November 21st when a butane gas truck and a passenger car collided at West Morton and Maurice.
At first the death toll was placed at 5, then 7, later an additional 2 passed away and Friday morning the 24th the list stood at 10 dead with 2 additional lives hanging in the balance.
The last three persons dying since the report or the Press last week were Mrs. John Marshall, Sherman; Mrs. C.A. Bliss, Denison, and Mrs. Otto Ahlers, Sherman.
Those remaining alive Saturday morning at the hospitals were Mrs. Ed Kilgore, 1427 W. Morton; Lonnie Joe Hammons, 12, 1326 W. Washington, Denison; and Mrs. R. B. Marshall, Dallas.
Funeral services were conducted from points as far north as Kansas City, and at various points in Texas for the other victims, some of whom were visiting the city, or passing through and happened to be at the fatal spot at the time.

AS A SAFETY MEASURE
While the holocaust was on the lips of thousands, newspapers and city and state officials and handlers of butane and other explosives were considering a restudy of the whole field with the idea of better safety steps to protect the public against any like sources of danger.  No doubt wise and mature thinking will be given the whole matter, which is the sane and reasonable way to take the matter.
The whole thing has centered the eyes of the world on Denison and enlisted the sympathy of thousands who have let their feelings be known by letters, telegrams and personal word.
The sufferers among the immediate families as well as the patients who were lingering by threads of life were the subjects of special prayer at the Thanksgiving day service held here Thursday.  The milk of human kindness has been manifested in commendable ways in Denison and the whole city has been brought to a more sober frame of mind.


Buried at West Hill Cemetery, Sherman
Bertha M. Ahers

Buried at Fairview Cemetery, Denison
Lonnie Hammons
Leah Kilgore

Buried at Oakwood Cemetery at Whitesboro
Bertha Cameron Snodgrass Marshall

Buried at Oakland Cemetery, Madill, Marshall Co., Oklahoma
John Wesley Marshall