Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== THE LUDINGTON RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, February 23, 1882 VOL. XV. OLD SERIES, NO. 25 VOL. II NEW SERIES, NO. 40 Six Men Killed by an Explosion at Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 17. This morning, five minutes before going to work, the boiler of the Georgia car works, located at Cartersville, four miles from Atlanta, on the Western and Atlantic railway, exploded with ter- rible effect, killing six men and wounding a num- ber of others, some of whom will die, beside tear- ing the greater portion of the building to pieces. The killed are LAWRENCE CHOICE, MATT BOWMAN, HAND HAMMOND, DAVID RICHARDSON, RICHARD PATTERSON and SAM DAVIS, all colored. ELLIS LAWE and HENRY HICKSON are fatally wounded, and are expected to die at any moment. ED L. HAND, the engineer, was turning on steam at the time of the explosion, and so badly injured that he will die. C. E. LUCAS, superintendent, of sleeping-car notoriety, he being the inventor of the Lucas sleeping-car, was roughly but not dangerously handled. Five or six others were injured by broken ribs and other painful but not serious wounds. When the boiler exploded the gauge showed only eighty pounds of steam, and the men were gathered about the boiler waiting prepara- tory to commencing work. ===========================================================================