Lowndes County GaArchives News.....FAMILY SITS AROUND A KEG OF POWDER Spark Drops Among the Grains and There Is an Explosion THREE DEATHS THE RESULT January 3, 1900
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The Atlanta Constitution January 3, 1900
Child Who Caused the Catastrophe Is Instantly Killed, TWO OTHERS DIE OF 
INJURIES, Lowndes County Farmer Tries To Fill Shells in Front of An Open Fire

Selma, Ala., January 2. (Special)
     Near Drain post office, in Lowndes County, C. M. Patterson was sitting 
before the fire loading shells. His old father, a paralytic, was sitting near 
him, and his wife and children were about the fire. He had a powder keg between 
his knees and was filling his shells from it. One of his little girls picked up 
a piece a piece of pine and threw it in the fire. A coal or spark was knocked 
into the open powder keg, when there was a terrific explosion. The little girl 
was instantly killed, Patterson’s wife and father both died and Patterson is not 
expected to live. When the explosion occurred Mrs. Patterson, with her clothes 
on fire, ran into an adjoining room and jumped into the bed, where her four 
months old infant was sleeping. The bedding was instantly set on fire and the 
infant was badly burned about the feet, but not fatally. The house was set on 
fire and but for some Negroes hearing the explosion those injured and four other 
little children in the house would have been burned with the building.


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