Chapel Hill Mourning Death of Three University Students, Feb. 18, 1922

Chapel Hill Mourns Death of Students

Chapel Hill, Feb. 17—Profound sorrow has come upon the whole university community with the death of three students in the collision between an automobile and a railroad locomotive in East Durham early this morning.

Immediately upon learning of the accident, President Chase, Dean Howe and Dean Carroll of the school of commerce went to Durham to inquire into the circumstances and to call upon the two students who escaped with minor injuries. A.H. Patterson, dean of the school of applied science, announced the news of the tragedy at the chapel exercises. Business Manager Woollen notified the families of the students by long distance telephone. All three of the students who lost their lives were members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Peoples’ home was in Townsville, Vance county, Iceman’s in Monroe and Hadley’s in Mount Airy.

From the Wilmington Morning Star, Feb. 18, 1922