{"id":2480,"date":"2014-09-01T23:32:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T04:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2014-09-01T23:32:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T04:32:59","slug":"w-a-alexander-almost-loses-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/w-a-alexander-almost-loses-life\/","title":{"rendered":"W.A. Alexander Almost Loses Life (1890)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from the Creswell Letter column and dated February 14, 1890:<\/p>\n<p>Editor Beacon: <strong>\u00a0Mr. W.A. ALEXANDER<\/strong>, whom we mentioned in a previous letter as losing a barn in 1883, and one also in 1889, by fire, came very near losing his life on Friday last, while taking down an old barn, which he had purchased of <strong>Mr. C.L. PETTIGREW<\/strong>. \u00a0The wind at the time, was blowing hard, and as the props had all been knocked from the rafters, they were blown down, falling on <strong>Jacob BASNIGHT<\/strong>, (who was assisting) killing him almost instantly; and <strong>Mr. ALEXANDER<\/strong>, in getting out of their way, fell on a joist, seriously injuring himself. \u00a0Two doctors are attending him daily, and when last heard from he was improving slightly, although he is badly hurt, and will no doubt be confined for a long time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Source: Roanoke Beacon, 21\u00a0February 1890.\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #333333;\">Available online at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #a4a4a4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from the Creswell Letter column and dated February 14, 1890: Editor Beacon: \u00a0Mr. W.A. ALEXANDER, whom we mentioned in a previous letter as losing a barn in 1883, and one also in 1889, by fire, came very near losing his life on Friday last, while taking down an old barn, which he had purchased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,77],"tags":[1860,2266,1489],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roanoke-beacon","category-washington","tag-alexander-w-a","tag-basnight-jacob","tag-pettigrew-c-l"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-E0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}