Explosion Snowball 1879

From a history of Searcy County, Arkansas, pages 143-146:

SNOWBALL, ARKANSAS
Recollections of the Past

Early in the year 1870, about one mile from Snowball, a post office was named Calf Creek. The mail came by horseback from Jasper (in Newton County) to Calf Creek, then on to Marshall, back to Calf Creek, and on to Jasper the third day.

In 1875, Captain Ben F. TAYLOR installed a mill at Calf Creek to grind wheat and corn for the inhabitants. At this time mills were scarce and the grain had to be hauled along way. In its third year, the boiler exploded. In the scrap pile was a large piece of scrap iron from the boiler that killed four men: Bert WOODARD, Andy CANEDA, Wade "Dock" GRIFFIN and Wade CAMPBELL, father of L. E. and B. T. CAMPBELL.