Monday, November 9, 2020

One Son Dead, Another Seriously Injured Playing With Dynamite, Nov. 10, 1920

By the Associated Press, Rocky Mount, N.C., Nov. 10--A three-year-old son of Steven Winstead, who lives near Sandy Cross, six miles from here, is dead and a five-year-old brother is in a local hospital in serious condition with one hand blown off and the other badly mangled as the result of an explosion of a stick of dynamite with which they had been playing. The children found the dynamite under a barn where it had been hidden after some had been used for blowing up stumps. The barn was wrecked. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Wednesday eveing, Nov. 10, 1920)

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