Fayetteville, March 27—Felton McMillan, Eugene McMillan and Lacy Evans, negroes employed by the state highway commission, were burned to death in their beds when a shantytruck in which they were sleeping was consumed by flames at 3 o’clock this morning. The tragedy occurred at a camp southwest from Fayetteville on the Wilmington road, Route 21.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, March 29, 1926
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