Perhaps tho most remarkable tragedy ever enacted occurred in Winston, N..C-» at a barn- raising, tfive men were at work on the timbers, two on the frame, and three on the ground. The two on the building got to quarrelling, whei one. threw an axe at the other, cutting his head open and killing him instantly. The man T£ho threw the axe lost his fooihold in dpuig it,, a'ud fell from the frame, and jjvfok* his nesk. At this awful sigh;j one of the thret- men on the ground who' was raising a teary piece of timber, lost his and he itick fell upon one of his and crushed uVn to deatlji.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 1, 17 June 1882, Page 3
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