Abe Gentry Struck By Train Backing Into Siding, June 24, 1923

Train Killed Elkin Farmer. . . Struck By Train Backing Into Siding

Winston-Salem, N.C., June 23—Abe Gentry, farmer of Surry county, was fatally injured this morning at Elkin which struck by a train of cars backing into a siding on the Southern railroad at that place. Mr. Gentry’s son, who was working on a steam derrick at the time, shouted a warning, but the elder man never heard and the son looked on as the freight cars crushed the life out of his father. Mr. Gentry’s body was cut almost in two. He lived about 20 minutes.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, June 24, 1923