Salisbury, Feb. 8—Four negroes, John Giles and three of his children, are dead as a result of a grade crossing accident here this afternoon, when Southern train No.14, Charlotte to Salisbury, struck and demolished the automobile in which the negroes were riding, at the Jackson crossing on West Innes street.
Giles and his 12-year-old son, Wilburn, were killed instantly and another son, Ray, aged 8, and a daughter, Geneva, aged 5, died tonight from injuries received in the accident.
Two others, Kathleen Giles, aged 11, and James Davis, aged 12, were seriously injured in the crash.
According to Kathleen, the only one able to talk when the wreckage was gathered up, her 12-year-old brother was driving and when he attempted to stop the momentum of the car drove it up on the track in front of the train.
Engineer R.L. James and Conductor E.W. Koontz were in charge of the train.
From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, Feb. 9, 1925
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