Hartsville, TN Thrashing Machine Boiler Explosion, Jul 1897

TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION.

Nine People Killed and Five Seriously Injured-Head of One of the Victims Cannot be Found-

NINE KILLED.

Terrific Explosion of a Threshing Machine Boiler.

HARTSVILLE, Tenn., July 7.-A frightful boiler explosion occurred on the farm of W. A. ALLEN, in the Tenth district of this city, late yesterday, by which nine people were instantly killed and five badly injured. The dead are:

W. A. ALLEN.
JAMES ALLEN.
LINDSEY ALLEN.
MOCK TUNSTILL.
ASA BARR.
PORTER AVERITT.
_____ BOLTON.
LEN BARKSDALE.
WILL ALLEN.

The latter two were negroes. The wounded are:

CALHOUN STONE, leg booken (sic) in two places.
GEORGE DICE, badly scalded and mangled; will die.
JOHN FOLEY, colored, badly mangled; will die.
ALBERT HALEY, colored.
SAM WHEELER, colored, leg broken.

MR. ALLEN and his men were just concluding the work of threshing wheat and were preparing to leave the field when the explosion occurred, from what cause is not known. Some of the victims were mangled beyond recognition, and pieces of the boiler were blown 700 yards. LINDSEY ALLEN's head was blown away and has not been found. WHEELER, DICE and FOLEY are certainly fatally injured. W. A. ALLEN was a member of the Trousdale county court and a preminent man in his section.

Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, In 7 Jul 1897
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Transcribed by Linda Houston. Thank you, Linda!