Albemarle, March 20—Marvin Hill, aged 22, Walter Green, 35, and Charlie Green, 21, brother of Walter Green, are dead, and Raymond Green, 10-year-old son of Walter Green, is seriously injured as a result of a grade crossing collision on the Charlotte branch of the Norfolk Southern Railway at Aquadale, 10 miles south of Albemarle, at 4 o’clock this afternoon.
Walter Green and Hill were instantly killed. Charlie Green died at 6:30 o’clock tonight at a hospital here to which he and Raymond Green were brought following the accident. It is thought that the boy will recover, but it will not be known definitely as to this until later.
The victims of the accident all lived in the Aquadale section. They were on their way to Albemarle and were traveling in a touring car which was struck by an oncoming train. The car was literally smashed into fragments.
It is stated that the driver of the car, seeing that he could not cross ahead of the train, turned the automobile to cut down beside the track. When he did so the car ran into a ditch, turned over and landed partly on the track.
The train was No 31, leaving Raleigh at 7:30 a.m. for Charlotte, H.G. Hunt of Raleigh, conductor, and W.B. Thomas of Raleigh, engineer.
Walter Green is the father of seven children while Marvin Hill leaves his wife and one child. Charlie Green was unmarried. Both of the Greens were members of well known families and had many relatives in Stanly county.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, March 21, 1926
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