Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....Explosion, 1894 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ A SAW MILL BLOWN UP. Engineer Killed and Two Men Scalded W. C. Davis Weds Mrs. Morris. NORFOLK, VA., January 4.-(Special.)- The saw-mill of J. T. Bradshaw, at Handsome's Depot, Southampton county, was blown up by a boiler explosion yesterday, and the engineer killed and two hands badly scalded. The men were colored. The building was completely wrecked, and the loss is about $3,000. [...] "The Richmond (VA) Dispatch," Fri., Jan. 5, 1894 (No. 13), p. 4, col. 3 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com) [line breaks mine] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/news/01051894rd.txt