Sunday, January 11, 2026

Funerals for Robert Anderson, Robert Dixon, Mary Wheeler, Zanie Sutton, Jan. 12, 1926

Victims of Train Crash Buried Monday

Gastonia, Jan. 11 (AP)—Funeral services were to be conducted today for the victims of one of the most tragic grade crossing accidents in the history of the city last night at 8 o’clock. Four people were killed when their automobile was struck by a fast passenger train on the southern tracks west of the city.

The dead are:

Robert Anderson, driver of the car; Robert Dixon; Mrs. Mary Wheeler, and Miss Zanie Sutton.

From page 3 of The Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, January 12, 1926. “Goldsboro Is the Gate City of Eastern North Carolina”

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn93064755/1926-01-12/ed-1/seq-3/

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