Washington, Feb. 11—While cutting down trees for the Interstate Co-operage Company of Belhaven, making a right of way for a railway, Noah Dudley, colored, was instantly killed by a falling tree.
The accident occurred near Princeton when a heavy gale was blowing. Another man cut down a tree close to Dudley and had been intended to fall a certain way when the gale caught it and swung it around, and it fell directly on Dudley’s head. Death was instantaneous.
From the front page of the Wilson Times, Feb. 12, 1924
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