Mrs. Geo. A. Shuford, Children George, 3, and Dorothy Louise, 1, Killed in Train Derailment, Aug. 14, 1926

Mrs. Geo. A. Shuford Dies as Result of Railroad Accident. . . Her Two Children Were Killed Instantly in the Wreck on Long Island Road at Calverton, N.Y. . . . Home Was in Asheville. . . Died Without Knowing Her Children Had Been Killed—Was on Way to Visit Her Parents

Calverton, N.Y., Aug. 14 (AP)—Mrs. George A. Shuford of Biltmore, N.C., died in the Southampton Hospital today as a result of a Long Island Railroad wreck here last night. She was pinned under wreckage for five hours before being freed by rescue workers.

The number of dead remained at six, however, as it was learned that Jas. E. Way, Brooklyn business man, a supposed victim, was not killed, but only suffered from shock.He had been listed as “J. B. Waye,” among the dead.

Mrs. Shuford’s children, George, 3, and Dorothy Louise, 1 year old, were killed in the wreck. The others killed were Harold A. Fish, Manhattan broker; Wm. J. Squires, engineer of the train; and John Montgomery, fireman, both of Greenport, Long Island. Six other persons were seriously injured.

Mrs. Shuford died without knowing that her children had been killed in the wreck. Her husband is an attorney of Asheville, N.C. She and her children arrived at New York yesterday and were on their way to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Angell, to the Long Island country home of the latter.

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Calverton, N.Y., Aug. 13—Six persons were killed and 10 injured, several seriously, when two engines and three cars of a seven-car Long Island railroad train were derailed and overturned at a switch tonight. The cause of the accident was unknown.

Engineer William J. Squires and Fireman John Montgomery, both of Greensport, in the lead engine, were among the killed.

The four passengers killed were identified later as H. L. Fish of New York and East Marion; J.B. Ware of Greenport; and George A. Shuford Jr., 3 years old, and Dorthy Louise Shuford, 1 year old, and the children of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Shuford of Asheville, N.C.

Mrs. Shuford is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Angel of Brooklyn, who met her at the Pennsylvania station in New York. They were accompanying her and her children to their summer home on Long Island. Mr. and Mrs. Angel were injured slightly.

Both locomotives were battered and twisted into a mass of wreckage, but the crew of the second engine escaped injury by leaping to safety. The first of the passenger coaches, a parlor car, buckled upward and crashed down through the roof of a pickle cannery alongside the tracks. There was no fire and passengers were able to make their way out of the cars through doors and windows.

Mrs. Shuford, after remaining pinned under the wreckage for five hours, was extricated late tonight and taken to a hospital in Southampton. Her condition was regarded as serious, but she is expected to recover.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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