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Stone Mountain Quarry Compressed Air Tank Explosion

Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia
February 28, 1929
No. Killed - 7



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Those killed in the explosion included the following:
  • C. G. Davis
  • O. Z. Cowan
  • John D. Glaze
  • Charles Haynes
  • Will Maddox
  • Cody Smith
  • Cal Howard
Those injured were:
  • John Swimm
  • Morris Brown
  • Eugene Shinn
  • Carl Sewell




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