U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 ancestry.com
Name: Wade Campbell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Place of Birth: Arkansas
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855
Age: 25
Month of Death: Dec
Cause of Death: Killed
Census Year: 1880
Census Location: (City, County, State) Calf Creek, Searcy, Arkansas
Enumeration District: 175
Line: 10
Ozark Memories: Searcy County, Arkansas
On December 22, 1879, the boiler of a steam powered grist mill in Snowball, Arkansas exploded killing four men. Bert Woodard, Andy Canady, Wade Campbell, and Wade "Dock" Griffin lost their lives that day to a large fragment of iron shrapnel and the community of Snowball lost a scarce and valuable asset. -Tina Lewis Johnson
Wade Campbell (198487255)
Suggested edit: That Saw Mill Explosion, The Arkansas Gazette, January 16, 1880:
While at Calf Creek, near the Boston mountains, in Searcy county, I learned of a most serious and horrible accident, which occurred near Stephens & Miller's store, in said county, at the foot of Boston mountains.
It seems that Mr. B.F. Taylor, who was the owner of a large steam mill and gin, and who was operating the same, had been informed by skillful engineers that, in its condition, the boiler of the engine used in the mill was liable to explode at any time, under a a high pressure of steam. Notwithstanding tis advice, he, on the morning of the 22d of December, had Mr. Wade Campbell, a new engineer (son of the late Senator Campbell, of this stat), running the engine, against he urgent entreaties of his friends. The boiler exploded, and Mr. Campbell was blown through the top of an apple tree, and descended into the lint room connected with the mill. He leaves a distressed widow and three fatherless children.
Mr. J.B. Woodard, a blacksmith, who was standing in front of the engine, was literally blown all to pieces. He also leaves a sorrowing widow and four little children.
By the side of said Woodard lay A.J. Kennedy, quite a young man, who was utterly destroyed.
Mr. Wade Griffin, the fourth and last victim, and whose name is known to many Little Rock people, was standing between the engine and the boiler, and was blown at least twenty feet, against the loft of the mill house. I am told that he was blown into atoms, pieces of his flesh and limbs being found some distance from the scene of the disaster. Mr. Griffin leaves a widow and six children.
Contributor: Travis Holt (48272081) • [email protected]
Name: Wade Campbell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Place of Birth: Arkansas
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855
Age: 25
Month of Death: Dec
Cause of Death: Killed
Census Year: 1880
Census Location: (City, County, State) Calf Creek, Searcy, Arkansas
Enumeration District: 175
Line: 10
Ozark Memories: Searcy County, Arkansas
On December 22, 1879, the boiler of a steam powered grist mill in Snowball, Arkansas exploded killing four men. Bert Woodard, Andy Canady, Wade Campbell, and Wade "Dock" Griffin lost their lives that day to a large fragment of iron shrapnel and the community of Snowball lost a scarce and valuable asset. -Tina Lewis Johnson
Wade Campbell (198487255)
Suggested edit: That Saw Mill Explosion, The Arkansas Gazette, January 16, 1880:
While at Calf Creek, near the Boston mountains, in Searcy county, I learned of a most serious and horrible accident, which occurred near Stephens & Miller's store, in said county, at the foot of Boston mountains.
It seems that Mr. B.F. Taylor, who was the owner of a large steam mill and gin, and who was operating the same, had been informed by skillful engineers that, in its condition, the boiler of the engine used in the mill was liable to explode at any time, under a a high pressure of steam. Notwithstanding tis advice, he, on the morning of the 22d of December, had Mr. Wade Campbell, a new engineer (son of the late Senator Campbell, of this stat), running the engine, against he urgent entreaties of his friends. The boiler exploded, and Mr. Campbell was blown through the top of an apple tree, and descended into the lint room connected with the mill. He leaves a distressed widow and three fatherless children.
Mr. J.B. Woodard, a blacksmith, who was standing in front of the engine, was literally blown all to pieces. He also leaves a sorrowing widow and four little children.
By the side of said Woodard lay A.J. Kennedy, quite a young man, who was utterly destroyed.
Mr. Wade Griffin, the fourth and last victim, and whose name is known to many Little Rock people, was standing between the engine and the boiler, and was blown at least twenty feet, against the loft of the mill house. I am told that he was blown into atoms, pieces of his flesh and limbs being found some distance from the scene of the disaster. Mr. Griffin leaves a widow and six children.
Contributor: Travis Holt (48272081) • [email protected]
U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 ancestry.com
Name: Wade Campbell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Place of Birth: Arkansas
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855
Age: 25
Month of Death: Dec
Cause of Death: Killed
Census Year: 1880
Census Location: (City, County, State) Calf Creek, Searcy, Arkansas
Enumeration District: 175
Line: 10
Ozark Memories: Searcy County, Arkansas
On December 22, 1879, the boiler of a steam powered grist mill in Snowball, Arkansas exploded killing four men. Bert Woodard, Andy Canady, Wade Campbell, and Wade "Dock" Griffin lost their lives that day to a large fragment of iron shrapnel and the community of Snowball lost a scarce and valuable asset. -Tina Lewis Johnson
Wade Campbell (198487255)
Suggested edit: That Saw Mill Explosion, The Arkansas Gazette, January 16, 1880:
While at Calf Creek, near the Boston mountains, in Searcy county, I learned of a most serious and horrible accident, which occurred near Stephens & Miller's store, in said county, at the foot of Boston mountains.
It seems that Mr. B.F. Taylor, who was the owner of a large steam mill and gin, and who was operating the same, had been informed by skillful engineers that, in its condition, the boiler of the engine used in the mill was liable to explode at any time, under a a high pressure of steam. Notwithstanding tis advice, he, on the morning of the 22d of December, had Mr. Wade Campbell, a new engineer (son of the late Senator Campbell, of this stat), running the engine, against he urgent entreaties of his friends. The boiler exploded, and Mr. Campbell was blown through the top of an apple tree, and descended into the lint room connected with the mill. He leaves a distressed widow and three fatherless children.
Mr. J.B. Woodard, a blacksmith, who was standing in front of the engine, was literally blown all to pieces. He also leaves a sorrowing widow and four little children.
By the side of said Woodard lay A.J. Kennedy, quite a young man, who was utterly destroyed.
Mr. Wade Griffin, the fourth and last victim, and whose name is known to many Little Rock people, was standing between the engine and the boiler, and was blown at least twenty feet, against the loft of the mill house. I am told that he was blown into atoms, pieces of his flesh and limbs being found some distance from the scene of the disaster. Mr. Griffin leaves a widow and six children.
Contributor: Travis Holt (48272081) • [email protected]
Name: Wade Campbell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Place of Birth: Arkansas
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855
Age: 25
Month of Death: Dec
Cause of Death: Killed
Census Year: 1880
Census Location: (City, County, State) Calf Creek, Searcy, Arkansas
Enumeration District: 175
Line: 10
Ozark Memories: Searcy County, Arkansas
On December 22, 1879, the boiler of a steam powered grist mill in Snowball, Arkansas exploded killing four men. Bert Woodard, Andy Canady, Wade Campbell, and Wade "Dock" Griffin lost their lives that day to a large fragment of iron shrapnel and the community of Snowball lost a scarce and valuable asset. -Tina Lewis Johnson
Wade Campbell (198487255)
Suggested edit: That Saw Mill Explosion, The Arkansas Gazette, January 16, 1880:
While at Calf Creek, near the Boston mountains, in Searcy county, I learned of a most serious and horrible accident, which occurred near Stephens & Miller's store, in said county, at the foot of Boston mountains.
It seems that Mr. B.F. Taylor, who was the owner of a large steam mill and gin, and who was operating the same, had been informed by skillful engineers that, in its condition, the boiler of the engine used in the mill was liable to explode at any time, under a a high pressure of steam. Notwithstanding tis advice, he, on the morning of the 22d of December, had Mr. Wade Campbell, a new engineer (son of the late Senator Campbell, of this stat), running the engine, against he urgent entreaties of his friends. The boiler exploded, and Mr. Campbell was blown through the top of an apple tree, and descended into the lint room connected with the mill. He leaves a distressed widow and three fatherless children.
Mr. J.B. Woodard, a blacksmith, who was standing in front of the engine, was literally blown all to pieces. He also leaves a sorrowing widow and four little children.
By the side of said Woodard lay A.J. Kennedy, quite a young man, who was utterly destroyed.
Mr. Wade Griffin, the fourth and last victim, and whose name is known to many Little Rock people, was standing between the engine and the boiler, and was blown at least twenty feet, against the loft of the mill house. I am told that he was blown into atoms, pieces of his flesh and limbs being found some distance from the scene of the disaster. Mr. Griffin leaves a widow and six children.
Contributor: Travis Holt (48272081) • [email protected]
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