Almost instant death came to John D. Holloman, negro plasterer of this city, when the car driven by J. H. Price of Dyer Street skidded on the clay embankment of the nine-foot road about three miles from Edenton and plunged eight feet into the ravine below. Holloman was in his early fifties and leaves a wife.
Shepherd Eason, another Negro plasterer in the car with Mr. Price, escaped without injury. Mr. Price, who was driving, received only a few scratches and a cut over the left eye.
Mr. Price, who is a housemover working from this city, was on his way to Edenton with the two plasterers to go to work on a job underway there. Just as he reached the ravine on the Hertford-Edenton highway, near a logging crane and sawmill and about three or four miles from Edenton, the driver of a log truck blew his horn. Mr. Price swung his car, a new Ford sedan, off the road to allow the man to pass, and when the wheels struck the clay, they skidded, and he never gained control of the car again. The car plunged down the embankment and was badly damaged. Holloman on the front seat was severely cut about the mouth and is believed to have bled to death from the wound.
Dr. T. A. Cox, Perquimans County coroner, was called to the scene immediately after the wreck.
From the front page of the Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Oct. 1, 1926
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn83025812/1926-10-01/ed-1/seq-1/
No comments:
Post a Comment