Tidewater in 1907 -- Explosion

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Premature Explosion of Dynamite Kills Two
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    Louie Longard and an unknown Austrian laborer were killed on the Tidewater railway near Ellett, in Montgomery county, Va., Tuesday, in an explosion.  Longard, a foremen, had charged a hole with dynamite and powder, and while tamping, the rod struck a spark from a rock and the charge exploded instantly killing both men.
    Longard was apparently a man of good family, but left nothing to show the address of any relative or friend.  He was buried at Christiansburg.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 29, 1907

[It seem incredible to us today that an employer would have no information about an employee's home or kin, particularly when the employee was a foreman.]

Gordon Hamilton
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