Avery M. Powell of Patterson suffered serious injuries Thursday when he was caught by some rock on the Blowing Rock road where he was working. Mr. Powell and Mrs. Jesse Bolick were preparing to dynamite some rock along the road to improve the road. The cliff was of a seamy kind of rock, and before the dynamite was ready to go off, a large pile of rock broke loose, catching Mr. Powell and breaking his right leg in two places. The bones were broken below the knee and one split, it is said. His left leg was also very much bruised, but not broken. The accident happened at the rock crusher on the Lenoir-Blowing Rock Highway, beyond E.L. Curtis’ store near the old tollgate. Mr. Powell was taken immediately to a Hickory hospital where the bones were set, and according to latest reports he is resting very nicely.
Mr. Bolick jumped as soon as he saw the rock breaking loose, and barely missed getting caught also. Some rocks hit his heels as he jumped.
From the front page of the Lenoir News-Times, Thursday, Feb. 15, 1923. Is Powell from Paterson or Patterson?
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