Johnston County NcArchives News.....John Moore November 16, 1897 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Natasha Miles bittersweet3@yahoo.com June 1, 2020, 5:34 pm The Semi-Weekly Messenger (Wilmington NC) 16 November 1897 November 16, 1897 Monday night about a mile below Smithfield, a man by the name of John Moore was run over and horribly mangled by an Atlantic Coast Line freight train, which passes here about 11:30 o'clock. Moore was returning from a brother's house about two miles above here, and he is supposed to have been drinking and asleep on the track when the train struck him. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/johnston/newspapers/johnmoor769gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb