Overman Rary, 17-year-old employe of the Cannon Manufacturing plant at Kannapolis, was almost instantly killed Sunday afternoon about 4 miles from Salisbury on the Salisbury-Concord highway when a Charlotte car, filled with negroes, ran into the car in which he was riding, injuring his skull so that he died before he could be taken to a hospital.
The negroes are alleged to have made their escape immediately on learning of the seriousness of the accident and their identity had not been learned this morning.
J.F. Dayvault, O.A. Swaringen, J.L. Petren and Joe Green, all of Concord, and Solicitor Zez Long, all of whim were coming to Concord, stopped at the scene of the accident soon after it happened.
They found the boy practically scalped where he hit some part of the automobile, and the others not so seriously injured. Tying up his head as best they could, they sent him back to Salisbury with Charlie Propst, who happened to come by at that time. The other injured persons in the car, his two brothers and his brother-in-law, were also sent to Salisbury for treatment. The young man died before reaching the hospital.
Just how the accident happened has not been made clear, but as it happened on a narrow tar road, it is thought that both cars were held on the road which was too narrow for them to pass. The car driven by the negroes was said to be a Cadillac, from a “for hire” place in Charlotte.
From page 2 of The Concord Times, Monday, Oct. 19, 1925
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