J.E. Madren and Daughter's Bodies Returned to Elon, Sept. 22, 1924

Bodies of Madren and Daughter Taken Home. . . North Carolina Man and His Daughter Killed in Tunnel

By the Associated Press

Lynchburg, Va., Sept. 22—The bodies of J.E. Madren, 50 years old, and his daughter May, 18, killed yesterday while walking through the Rivermont tunnel of the Southern Railway, were taken to their late home near Elon, N.C., today. The father and daughter with their son and brother, H.D. Madren, of this city, and his 14-year-old son Clyde, and J.M. Phillipi, aged 26, of Gibsonville, N.C., left their automobile at the mouth of the tunnel and started to walk through. About midway they were overtaken by freight trains approaching from both ends. They lay on a plank walk about two feet wide between the trains. What happened then the three survivors who were uninjured couldn’t tell.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, September 22, 1924

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