Saturday, February 4, 2012

Railroad Construction Deaths

Atlanta Journal, 16 December 1906, page 1:

Dynamite Kills Six Persons

Fatal Accident to Railroad Workmen in North Carolina.

Knoxville, Tenn December 15 -- Six men met instant death this afternoon in a dynamite explosion about 24 miles from Newport Tenn. and just across the state line in North Carolina. They were employed in railroad construction, building an extension to the Tennessee and North Carolina railroad. A load of dynamite for a blast exploded while being tampered, tearing 6 men into shreds and seriously injuring a seventh. The victims, who were all white men of families living in the vicinity of Mount Sterling, were:

HAMILTON SUTHERLAND
ALFRED SUTTON
WILLIAM SUTTON
HARRISON BROWN
TIPP HALL

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