Charlotte, Jan. 2—Railroad and county officials today started an investigation into the collision between a work train and a string of freight cars on the Seaboard Air Line railroad near Hoskins last night, causing the death of five negroes and injury of two white men and eight negroes.
It developed today that instead of a freight train colliding with the work train, the latter ran into a string of freight cars left on the main line by a shifting engine. The work train engine was pushing a gondola and the group of dead and injured negroes was riding on this car.
Six of the injured still were in the hospital here today. Engineer H.H. Bradshaw and M.S. Graveley of Monroe, a student at North Carolina State College, who was working as fireman during the holidays, the only white men injured, went to their homes. Graveley lost two toes.
From page 3 of the Wilson Times, Jan. 8, 1924
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