A shocking accident occurred at 10 o’clock Sunday morning at the New Hampshire Avenue crossing of the Seaboard which caused the death of Mrs. Anna P. Milligan of Garden City, L.I., who was a guest at the Park View Hotel.
Mrs. Milligan was walking down town to post a letter and as it was raining, she was carrying an umbrella as she approached the crossing at New Hampshire, she evidently did not see train No. 9, the Florida Limited, which was just pulling into the station, but does not stop at Southern Pines, and she stepped directly in front of the locomotive and was picked up on the cowcatcher and evidently had the presence of mind to hold on for a few moments while the train which was running at a low rate of speed was slowing down, but she let go before the train stopped and her foot and one limb was badly crushed under the locomotive and she was instantly killed.
There was a crowd of people at the station at the time of the accident, waiting for the Northbound morning train, No. 4, who saw the accident. The remains were taken to the Powell Undertaking Rooms and were taken North to Philadelphia, Penn., for burial on Monday.
From the front page of The Sandhill Citizen, Southern Pines, Friday, April 10, 1925
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