Willie Mitchel, a Senora, Ga., negro working for the J.B. McCrary Co. on Harris Street, Leaksville, was killed today when a ditch in which he was working caved in covering him with earth. Before the earth could be removed, he was dead. About 80 feet of the ditch caved in and another negro had a close call.
Mitchell came here to work, it was said, last Sunday. He was about 34 years of age.
This is the first accident the McCrary Co. has had since the beginning of their contract on the town work.
From the front page of the Tri-City Gazette, Leaksville, N.C., May 12, 1923
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