Raleigh, Feb. 20 (AP)—Tragedy stalked across North Carolina today from the mountains to the sea and took a toll of six lives. At Concord, John Goode, a textile worker, was killed by a Southern train when it stepped on to see the tracks and evidently failed to see the train approaching.
At Newton, N.C., J.S. Bolick and Coal Williams of Maiden, N.C., were instantly killed when a freight train struck and demolished a wagon in which they were riding.
With the death in Raleigh hospital today of Dora Jackson of Leesville, the death toll of a tragedy in her father’s farm house was raised to three. C.M. Jackson, 69, well known farmer of the Leesville section, and his wife were found dead this morning in their home, and Dora Jackson, 37, was dying, after what appears to police to have been a double murder and suicide. The bodies of both women were hacked, evidently with an axe, and Jackson was found, his head literally blown to pieces, with a shotgun.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Feb. 22, 1926
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