Nansemond-Norfolk County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....R.R. Wreck, 1910 

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FIREMAN FATALLY HURT; ENGINEER IS INJURED 

Train Leaving Norfolk on Virginian Railway Leaves Track and is Wrecked. 

      (By Associated Press) 

  NORFOLK, VA. Dec. 17.- In a wreck on the Virginian Railway at Algren early 
today, Fireman Midgett, of train No. 14, enroute for this city from Roanoke, 
was so badly injured that he died later in the day and Engineer C.G. Bickford, 
was seriously hurt. 

  The locomotive of the train, which was running at 30 miles an hour, jumped 
the track and completely overturned.  The baggage car and one coach left the 
rails but the Pullman coach remained on the track.  The passengers were badly 
shaken up but none injured. 

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         WRECK ON VIRGINIAN. 

Fireman Is Killed and Engineer Badly Injured. 

       [Special to The Times-Dispatch.] 

  Suffolk, Va., December 17.- A broken flange on a 1ocomotive driving wheel 
to-day wrecked a Virginian Railway eastbound passenger train near Bowers's 
Hill, where that road crosses the Seaboard Air Line. Stephen Midyett, twenty-
two years old, of Lottie, N.C., the fireman, was killed, and Engineer Dick 
Ford [sic] is badly injured. 

  The locomotive and all cars except the Pullman and one passenger coach were 
derailed, but passengers escaped with trivial hurts.  

  The express car took fire and the imprisoned messenger was released after 
being threatened with cremation.  Passengers were taken to Norfolk by the 
Seaboard, which came a few minutes after the accident.


Stephen D. MIDYETT [MIDGETTE*], Jr., 
NC native, 
fatally injured in "Virginian" wreck, 17 Dec 1910, Algren, age 22, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 160**), Suffolk, 
"Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Vol. 15, No. 298, Dec. 18, 1910, 
   p. 1, col. 5; 
"Times-Dispatch" (Richmond, VA), No. 18,472, Dec. 18, 1910, p. 13, col. 2 

**Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_m.txt 

*Additional information: 

The 1900 Census gives Madyett.  (Maney's Neck, Hertford Co., NC) 

The pylon he shares with his parents shows MIDYETT for all three. 
   (Find a Grave Mem. #191468503) 


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