 On the day following Wright's lynching two more black men were shot and hanged; whites then burned the town's black school, Masonic lodge, church, amusement hall, and several families' homes.Firefighters battling a blaze at a  natural gas plant in August 1998 were injured when an explosion ripped through the area, sending a mammoth fireball into the sky.The flames destroyed at least six houses and several vehicles and forced the evacuation of 100 homes within two miles of the plant.