Rumors About Fatal Accident Seem to be Just Rumors, Sept. 28, 1924

Because Hurricane Helene could cause a power outage, I’m posting this article a day early.

No Confirmation of Reported Accident

At a late hour Saturday night reports were rife in Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh, concerning the death in an automobile accident of two University of North Carolina students returning to the Hill from the Wake Forest-Carolina game. However, at 3 o’clock Sunday morning no confirmation of this report was available either through the Associated Press efforts in Raleigh nor from those who had recently traveled the road.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday September 28, 1924

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