Saturday, September 3, 2022

Three Negroes Killed at Construction Site of Hydro-Electric Dam, Sept. 3, 1922

Magazine Explosion Kills Three Negroes

Charlotte, Sept. 2—Explosion of about 400 cases of dynamite in a small storage house of Dennis and Rhinehard, contractors constructing the great hydro-electric power dam on Mountain Island, on the Catawba river, this afternoon killed three negroes whose names could not be learned tonight.

From the Raleigh News & Observer, Sept. 3, 1922

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