New Bern, Oct. 7—As the result of an accident which occurred early this morning near Wildwood, when the motor car in which they were riding in the Moorehead New Bern railroad truck turned over after colliding with a dog. H.W. Oliver, a superintendent of bridges and building the Norfolk and Southern railroad is dead and J.H. Zeigler, local jeweler, is in the hospital here severely injured from the five hours during which he was pinned under the car. The men were returning after midnight from the coast, where they had been for a quarterly inspection of watched of employees of the railroad, Mr. Zeigler being official inspector for the line. They were riding the rails in a converted Ford motor car.
The accident was caused, according to Zeigler, by a dog that ran across the railroad track. The impact caused the car to turn completely over, pinning both men firmly underneath. Mr. Oliver died within a short time after, death resulting from sock and vertigo, all the blood in his body rushing to his head.
Mr. Zeigler remained conscious throughout the night from 12:30 until about 5:30 when he was found in a cold, half-paralyzed condition by a passing negro. It was stated that his overcoat probably saved him from being crushed to death, the car resting heavily over his hips. His injuries are not thought serious unless complications develop. The dog that caused the trouble was killed outright by the collision.
From page 2 of the Carolina Jeffersonian, Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 17, 1925
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