Willie Reeves, a negro employed by the Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company, was instantly killed near Micro Saturday morning about 8 o’clock when a train struck him while he was working on the track.
Reeves was driving spikes as the train approached and those working with him called and warned him to get out of the way, but just as he started to leave the track, the train struck him. The blow on his head split it entirely open and his brains were strown along the track. Death was instant.
The coroner, Mr. C. Q. Stephenson, was called to the scene, but an inquest was deemed unnecessary.
Reeves was a stranger in this county. Only a few days ago he was employed by the railroad company, but apparently no one in this section knew anything of his history.
The body was turned over to the railroad company for burial.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Sept. 14, 1926
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