Davie-Rowan County NcArchives Obituaries.....Potts, Archibald 1909
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Charlotte Daily Observer
6 Jul 1909

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION

Archibald Potts, of Advance, Hurled to Death and His Son Probably Fatally 
Injured.

Mocksville, July 5 - A threshing machine boiler exploded at Advance this 
morning while in operation near the railway station. Archibald Potts was 
instantly killed and his son, George, is thought to be fatally injured. 
Physicians here were sent for, to amputate one of his legs. Other members of 
the gang barely escaped with their lives from the flying debris. The dead man 
was about 50 years old and his injured son about 20.


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