Gary Mitchell Killed, Minnie Bryant Seriously Injured in Train-Automobile Wreck, Feb. 22, 1926

E. Gary Mitchell of Fairmont Killed in Train-Automobile Wreck Last Night. . . Two Ladies Also Seriously Injured When Coast Line Train Strikes Car at Four Oaks—Remains Will Be Brought to Fairmont Tonight. . . Funeral at Fairmont Tuesday

By Mrs. H.G. Inman

Fairmont, Feb. 22—Mr. E. Gary Mitchell, a young business man of this place, is dead and two ladies are seriously injured as the result of an accident occurring last night in Four Oaks when A.C.L. passenger train No. 82 struck an automobile in which the three were riding.

The remains of Mr. Mitchell and the injured ladies were placed on the train and carried to Rocky Mount, where the injured were taken to the A.C.L. hospital and the remains placed in charge of an undertaker. Officials of the railroad ‘phoned Mr. Durham Mitchell, brother of deceased, and arranged for a fast train passing Elrod early this morning to stop for him to go to Rocky Mount and return with the remains, arriving at Fairmont at 7:40 tonight.

Mr. Mitchell was a widower and leaves three children, besides is parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Mitchell, two sisters—Mrs. F.H. Pittman of Fairmont and a Mrs. Wilson of Hickory—and two brothers—Mr. Durham Mitchell of Fairmont and Mr. L.F. Mitchell of Wilmington.

Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, and interment made in the Fairmont cemetery.

Only One Lady Badly Hurt

The Robesonian ‘phoned the A.C.L. hospital in Rocky Mount at noon today and learned from the head nurse that Miss Minnie Bryant, one of the ladies with Mr. Mitchell, is badly hurt, the extend of her injuries not having been determined, but that Miss Mary Lee, the other young lady, is not seriously hurt. Both ladies are from Benson.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Feb. 22, 1926

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