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Five Men Seriously Hurt

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
May
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

ATLANTA, May 16.- An accident in which üvo men were seriously injured occurred at the new building erected by the Exposition Cotton Mills company. The men were working on the third floor and were raising a heavy piece of timber by meanof a derrick when the rope gavo way. The timber feil and struck othet timbera. This started the others and the whole inside work of the immense building was soon in ruins with flve men buried beneath the broken and twisted lumber. The injured are: S. B. Pylant, white, foreman; Will MoKenny, oo'.ored, carpenter; Henry Clay, Will Dunlap and John Dunlap - all colored laborers. It is thought three of the men will die. The duniage to the milis was considerable.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News