Wilmington, July 3—Dr. O. Stanley Waldrop, about ??, prominent Kinston dentist, was instantly killed late tonight when his auto crashed through the barricade on the south side of route No. 40, 100 yards north of the Castle Hayne River bridge, 10 miles north of the city, and burned. Emmett Kerr of Raleigh, Mr. Waldrop’s traveling companion, was only slightly hurt. He dragged the body of the Kinston man from the car immediately after the machine caught fire.
The machine, owned and driven by Waldrop, was headed toward Wilmington and was traveling at a rapid rate of speed. The machine failed to take the curve, landing between the barricade in the north end, crashing into and through the barricade with ?? force. Five sections of the fence were torn away as the car with its two passengers toppled over the embankment and into the marsh lowlands. It caught fire at once and burned quickly.
Mr. Kerr said he and Mr. Waldrop were en route to Wilmington to spend the week-end.
Mr. Waldrop is survived by his wife and two children.
From page 6 of The Goldsboro News, July 4, 1926
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