FIREMAN KILLED
TRANSCRIBED AND RESEARCHED
BY : TINA EASLEY
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ar/county/greene/
FROM THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
MAY 3 , 1902
PASSENGER TRAIN NO. 2 ,
NORTH BOUND ON THE COTTON BELT WAS WRECKED WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT REYNOLDS , A SMALL STATION THIS SIDE OF DELTA , MO. CAUSED BY THE ENGINE RUNNING INTO A COW ON THE TRACK , OVERTURNING THE LOCOMOTIVE AND DERAILING THE MAIL , BAGGAGE AND EXPRESS CARS. FIREMAN GEO. HUMPHRIES , OF JONESBORO , WAS CAUGHT UNDER THE ENGINE , CRUSHED AND INSTANTLY KILLED . ENGINEER HENDERSON WAS SEVERELY BRUISED AND HAD A SHOULDER DISLOCATED. OTHERS SUSTAINED SLIGHT INJURIES.
MR. HUMPHRIES , WHO WAS KILLED , WAS A BROTHER OF MRS. ED McKEEBY WHOSE HUSBAND WAS KILLED RECENTLY IN A RAILROAD WRECK. MR. HUMPHRIES WAS 34 YEARS OF AGE AND HAD BEEN IN THE EMPLOY OF THE COTTON BELT FOR SEVERAL YEARS.