A saw mill owned by D.G. Nance of Cerro Gordo was visited a few nights ago by unknown parties and enemies of the lumber plant operator and did damage to the engine to the amount of four or five hundred dollars. The nature of the damage was in burning the cylinder block, an important part of the engine, and wrecking the engine’s governor.
Various valuable beltings were also badly cut and sliced up in such a manner that repairs are said to be impossible.
The Cerro Gordo mill operator is interested in a number of small lumber mills in various parts of Fair Bluff township. The one to which the damage was done was situated on the Fair Bluff-Piraway road and near the home of H.C. Edwards, superintendent of the Columbus county chaingang forces.
The person or persons guilty of the wicked act left no trace behind that would in any way disclose their identity.
From the front page of Carolina Fruit and Truckers Journal, part of the Columbus Coiunty News, Chadbourn, N.C., April 8, 1926
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