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The same night, in Marietta, Ga., the town square was crowded with Halloween merrymakers. Terry Wayne Carter, 7, was among them—decked out as a devil and needing only a mask to make his costume complete. Terry and his father, Joe Ben Carter, walked hand in hand into Atherton's Drugstore to buy one. A few minutes later there was an explosion, probably caused by a basement gas leak. It shattered windows of stores near by, hurled a litter of Halloween masks, slivers of glass and pieces of concrete into the square. Terry, his father, and five other people died in the blast. Twenty-five others were injured.