Saturday, November 27, 2021

H.W. Garow, Jim Jones Killed When Locomotive Explodes Nov. 26, 1921

Two Killed When Locomotive Bursts

Raleigh, Nov. 26—Two men were killed and another seriously injured near Youngville, 30 miles north of here, tonight when the boiler of a Seaboard locomotive exploded. The dead are H.W. Garow of Raleigh, engineer, and Jim Jones, negro fireman.

E.J. Murphy of Middlesburg, a brakeman, was seriously injured and taken to a hospital at Wake Forest College. The cause of the explosion is not known.

From the front page of The Charlotte News, Nov. 27, 1921

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