Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-22
STkTESVILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY,
Catarrh Of the Hand. Injured by an Ex-
X pIosion of Dynamite.
Statesville Landmark, Jan l4.l7,

Statesville Landmark, Jan l4-17.
-Four large plate glass, abou
82x122, inter ded for the front O.
the new Patterson bnilding or
west Broad street, were found te
be broken in small pieces wher
the box was opened yesterday. The
glass was from Pittsburgh and a
duplicate order was wired at once,
The loss on the glass is about
5000, with the freight added,
probably $3.50 or $275, which the
railroads will have to make good.
| W. A. Hamlet, section master
on the Southern railway, has a
very sore hand that has caused
him much trouble and SUFFERING
The member became sore about
six weeks ago and his physician
pronounced the trouble "catarrh
of the hand" Since that time
the hand has been lanced five
times and it is thought that it is
out OF danger. There have been
number OF cases of catarrh of
the hand in Statesville recently,
but in each case the hand has
been saved. The disease some
times reaches such stage as to
necessitate amputation.
DR.. John r. Foard tells The
Landmark that the seven SHOWS
mentioned in the paper last week
were in reality eight snows--suow
falling about once week. for
eight weeks. Snow began falling
on Friday night before Christmas
of 1885 and continued regularly
for the time named, and no plow.
ing was done until March. The
big snow, says DR.. Foard, which
has been a record snow for a half
century, fell in 1857. The snow
was deep and the weather verv se.
we're.
The most recent important ad-
dition to Statesville's already
large number of manufacturing
industries is the Statesvllle Safe
and Table Co., which began bust
ness this week. The company has
a capital stock Of $4,000 and will
manufacture kitchen safes and
center tables.
An accident which would have
resulted in death under ordinary
circumstances occurred about
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon, at
]. L. Cowan's place, two miles
east of town. Ben Dobson
and "Ellen" West, the latter q
colored man, tenants on the Cow
an farm, were engaged in blowing
out stumps with dynamite. They
had goodI fire in the field and
when they found that some of
their dynamite was so badly fro
zen that the caps could not bt
placed, ethey laid three sticks of
the dynamite on chips near the
fire to let it thaw out. This was
all right, for the dynamite would
not have exploded if the fire had
reached it. But the men also had
q dynamite cap that didn't suit
them, and thinking it NJ good
| West tossed it IN the fire. The
cap was good, however, and when
lit exploded in the fire the ja1
caused the dynamite to explode
The explosion was of course some.
thing fearful and both men were
knocked a distance of about ten
feet. Although badly shocked
and bruised, neither of them was
unconscious, aud they we're or
their feet in an instant. But
when they arose they could hardly
hear and Dobson could not see
The explosion tore a hole in the
earth and the men had received
the full benefit Of the dirt, ashes
: rocks and burning pieces of woot
thrown out. The missiles wer
thrown against their faces will
such force that the skin wa
broken and dirt, gravel and ashe
we're imbedded under the skin an,
, in THAR avea