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Sunday, August 28, 2022

Two Unidentified Negroes Killed, Four Injured When Passenger Train No. 1 Strikes Car, Aug. 28, 1922

Two Negroes Killed in Railroad Smash. . . Four Injured, Taken to Hamlet Hospital, Are Reported Seriously Hurt

Raleigh, Aug. 28—Two negro men were instantly killed and three other men and two women, also colored, were injured this morning at 6:50 o’clock when Seaboard Air Line passenger train No. 1, southbound, struck the automobile in which they were riding at a crossing between New Hill and Apex, about 17 miles from Raleigh. Four of the injured, who were taken to a hospital at Hamlet, are reported to be in a serious condition and two are not expected to live.

None of the negroes was identified except one, who gave his name as Morris McIver, 18, of Cummock, N.C. He escaped with slight injuries. McIver could not give the names of the other six occupants of the machine.

The bodies of the two negro men were turned over to the undertaking establishment at Sanford to await further efforts at identification.

The authorities have been unable to ascertain details of how the accident occurred. From the wreckage of the automobile, it appeared that the car also was headed southbound and was struck when it tried to cross ahead of the train. Fragments of what appeared to be fruit jars with an odor of liquor were found at the scene.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Aug. 28, 1922

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