Columbia, S.C., July 9—J.L. Alexander, proprietor of the Ottoray Hotel, Greenville, S.C., was burned to death in the wreck of an automobile here late tonight.
Raven McDavit, former member of the general assembly from Greenville County, was painfully burned, and H.P. Hill, supervisor of Greenville Cunty, hwas seriously burned in the smashup which occurred just outside Columbia city limits on the highway to Greenville.
Rescuers were unable to extricate Mr. Alexander from the wreckage of the bar because of the flames.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, July 10, 1926
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