Salisbury, Feb. 9—Train No. 14, Charlotte to Salisbury, struck and demolished a car at the Jackson crossing on West Innis street, this afternoon, instantly killing John Giles, negro, and his 12-year-old son, Wilburn, fatally injuring a daughter, Geneva, aged 5, seriously injuring two others of his children, Kathleen, aged 11, and Ray, aged 8, and another boy, James Davis, aged 12, 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 Wilson Times, Tuesday, February 10, 1925
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