Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1885 - Atlanta, GA Blasting Powder Explosion, Nov 1885. Blown to Atoms.

Atlanta, Ga., November 5. – Two colored men, Wm. KENNEBREAD and Phil JOHNSON, well-diggers, were blown to atoms yesterday by an explosion of blasting powder. Thirty feet down they struck granite, and commenced drilling for the purpose of blowing up the rock. After one explosion they descended and drilled several more holes inserting explosives. Instantly an explosion followed when the two bodies were shot up 500 feet in the air. One fell on the ground 100 feet from the well, horribly mutilated. The other shot straight up in the air and fell back into the well.

Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas
November 6, 1885

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