Wednesday, October 9, 2024

State News Briefs, Oct. 10, 1924

State News Briefs

--James H. Sherrill, a prominent citizen of Statesville, dropped dead near his home last Friday.

--Ben Minery, chief of the negro section of the fire department of Wilson, saved four lives October 2.

--S.E. Allred of Winston-Salem was fatally injured October 6 when he fell from a pole he was repairing.

--It is estimated that the recent floods in Wayne County has done damage to the extent of $100,000.

--Buck Vaden, traveling salesman of Wilson, was drowned October 1st when his Ford overturned into a swollen stream.

--G.F. Gullick, 27, is dead, and Gus Leeper, negro, was badly injured near Gastonia when their car collided with a telephone pole.

--Miss Miriam Marshall, 23, of Asheville, who had been missing for nearly two weeks, had gone to New York to meet her fiancé.

--Walter Cranfield, 6-year-old boy of Statesville, died October 4 as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident.

--400 people are homeless in the vicinity of Kinston, having been driven out of their demolished homes by the swollen waters of the Neuse.

--Dewey Morgan died in an Asheboro hospital as the result of gunshot wounds said to have been received from Deputy Sheriff Edgar Brown of Temp during a whiskey raid.

--Fritz Dietrick and James Waycaster were killed October 2 when they fell from the top of a 225-foot smokestack they were repairing at the heating plant of the North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro.

--Waddell Forbes, 15, Pitt County boy, saved the Norfolk & Southern train from going into a washout just east of Greenville, October 2.

From page 3 of the Elizabeth City Independent, Friday, October 10, 1924

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