Train Strikes School Truck First Day of School, Sept. 1, 1924

School Truck Struck by Train at Orrum Today. . . Driver Slightly Injured—Was Returning from School for Another Load of Children—Detailed Information Not Available On Account of Phone Communication Being Impaired. . . Struck by A.C. L. Train

One of the Robeson county school trucks was badly damaged this morning when an Atlantic Coast Line train struck it at a crossing near Orrum.

According to meagre details reaching here the driver of the truck, whose name could not be learned, was alone when the accident occurred. He had carried one load of children to the school and was returning for another. Telephone connections could not be made without anyone at Orrum at the time of going to press, and Superintendent of Education J.R. Poole did not know the particulars. This is the opening day of the Orrum school.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday Sept. 1, 1924

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