Pages

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Railroad Engineer J.M. Fields Killed in Seaboard Wreck, Feb. 2, 1923

Engineer Fields Dies in a Seaboard Wreck

Raleigh, Feb. 1—One person was killed and five slightly injured early today when Seaboard Air Line train No. 1, en route from New York to Jacksonville, crashed into the rear of train No. 301 near Hagood, Va., according to an announcement by officials of the railroad here.

J.M. Fields, Raleigh, engineer of No. 1, was killed, and his fireman, T.E. Feltz, injured slightly. The o thers hurt were passengers, cut by flying glass, it was stated.

The cause of the wreck appeared to have been due to “mishandling of the block at LaCrosse by a telegraph operator,” officials stated, but it was added that the investigation had not been completed. Train No. 301 was en route from Washington to Hamlet, N.C.

From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Friday, Feb. 2, 1923

No comments:

Post a Comment