By the Associated Press
Reidsville, N.C., March 16—David Crockett Jones, 90-year-old railroad watchman for the Southern Railway here, died tonight of injuries received last night while at his post of duty at Wrays Mill crossing when in attempting to stop an automobile crossing the track, he was struck by the machine and mortally injured. Jones was struck by the automobile after the train had hit the car. Those in the automobile jumped before the train struck the automobile, which checked on the track, and escaped serious injury. Jones was a Confederate soldier and fought all through the Civil War without receiving a wound.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Monday, March 17, 1924
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