Five Men Killed When Cotton Gin Explodes in Bracy, Robeson County, Oct. 16, 1920

Lumberton, Oct 16--Five men, Henry and Jesse Bracy, white, Aron Oxendine, Indian, and two negroes, a mule and one horse were killed at Bracy, Robeson county, early yesterday morning when a boiler exploded at a cotton gin. The explosion broke a plate glass door and a number of glass windows in Rowland three miles away. The boiler had been repaired the day before and it is supposed was left in an unsafe condition. The white men were all well known citizens. (From the Hickory Daily Record, Oct. 16, 1920)