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Georgia Weekly Telegraph & Georgia Journal & Messenger November 30, 1875
The Griffin News learns "from a gentleman just from Jackson, Butts county, that a negro boy some twelve or thirteen years old, accidentally shot and killed his little sister, and mortally wounded a negro boy who was standing near her. The circumstances, as we gather them, are as follows: The negro boy picked up a gun which some one had been hunting with, and finding it was not capped, he took it for granted it was not loaded. He put cap on it, and thought he would frighten his sister and the boy by bursting a cap at them, but he gun went off and killed his sister instantly, and mortally wounded the boy, as above stated."
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Macon Telegraph October 27, 1898
Her Clothes Caught Fire
Awful Death of a Negro Girl at Jackson, Ga.
Jackson, Ga., Oct. 26 A Negro girl about eighteen years of age was in her house alone today and passing near the fireplace, her clothing became ignited. Seeing she was afire she ran out in the street and was caught by a negro drayman, but all of her clothing was burned off and cannot possibly live.
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Jackson Progress Argus 06 Mar 1969
Speeding Death At Racer Cuts Swath Of Newton Drag Strip
The worst racing tragedy in U. S. history occurred Sunday afternoon at the Yellow River Drag Strip near Covington when a 1968 fiber glass Camaro went out of control, became airborne, crashing into a chain-link fence and a group of spectators behind the fence, killing 11 and injuring 50, several either seriously or critically hurt.
Veteran driver Houston Platt of Atlanta apparently lost control of his speeding car crashed into the fence and spectators at a speed estimated in excess of 160 miles per hour, after a breaking parachute opened slightly with the car careening across a grassy bank and slamming into the fence behind which were hundreds of men, women and children.
The accident occurred around 2:15 p. m. None of the victims were from Jackson or Butts County but many Were from the Atlanta area with several from out of state.
As an aftermath of the grim tragedy, Gov. Lester Maddox and several legislators called this week for immediate legislation requiring drag strips to install necessary safety devices to protect spectators from the "hazard of sudden death."
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