“Black Hills Tragedy”
270
1959
Lawrence
(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)
Marker Text
this was brownsville; half a mile e, down elk creek in 1883, was the hood & scott lumber mill near rails end at allerton. the boarding house at mill burnt down on 10-11 march and dying in the fire were: Albert Tunnicliff, Raisha C. Rice, James Chalmers, Samuel Haines, Fred
D. Peters, Thomas Finless, Charles Hammontree, Peter and Louis Hanson, Harvey Wood and
W.H. Andrews. They were buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery in a common grave. One of the worst Hills tragedies.
Location
Lawrence County