Kannapolis, March 7—Another tragedy was added to the list this afternoon when the 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Whitie Irby received injuries which proved fatal in about 30 minutes when ran over by a car driven by Mr. Otis Powell. Mr. Powell procured water for the child and assisted in carrying her to the home, remaining until she died. The accident occurred near the home of the child’s parents between Kannapolis and Midway.
According to eye witnesses the Irby child, accompanied by another little girl with whom she was playing, ran into the road in front of the approaching car, the other child escaping injury. It is stated by the eye witnesses that the car was not being driven fast, but that the road is narrow at this point. Mr. Irby and family are well and favorably known in Kannapolis, and this deplorable accident is much regretted.
Mr. Powell is an esteemed young man of our city perhaps 20 or 25 years of age. He is attending school here, and has been for a few years associated with the Kannapolis Y.M.C.A.
Funeral services for the child will be held at the Baptist Church here tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, March 8, 1924
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