Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Douglas, Alvan P. May 18, 1925
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The Norfolk Landmark May 19, 1925  excerpt

        TWO LOSE LIVES AT POWER PLANT WHEN WORKMAN FALLS ON WIRE

Alvin P. Douglas and Linwood C. Whitley Horribly Burned As 11,000 Volt Carrier 
Short Circuits and Sets Fire To Clothing.

                    BOTH DIE SOON AFTER REACHING HOSPITAL

Necessary To Cut Off Power and Lights Before Victims Can Be Extricated; Coroner 
To Hold Inquest Next Week

Alvin P. Douglas, 28, of 720 West Liberty Street, Berkley, and Linwood C. 
Whitley, 40, of 1266 West Fortieth Street, employees of the Virginia Railway & 
Power Company, were fatally burned yesterday afternoon at 1:30 by coming in 
contact with a high voltage electric wire at the Reeves Avenue power plant of 
the railway company. Both died at St. Vincent's Hospital within two hours after 
being taken there by fellow employees.

Douglas was unmarried. He was the son of J.J. and Lucy Newby Douglas and was a 
native and lifelong resident of Berkley. In addition to his parents, he is 
survived by three brothers, J.J., Jr., W.E. and Alson, and two sisters, Mrs. 
D.C. Short and Mrs. J.P. Hampshire. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon 
at 4:30 o'clock at the funeral home of E. Lee Cox. Interment will be in the 
family plot at Magnolia Cemetery.
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Funeral services for Alvin Peledge Douglas, 28, who died suddenly Monday 
afternoon, were conducted this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock from the funeral home 
of E. Lee Cox, 124 East Berkley Avenue, by Rev. B.L. Rhodes, pastor of the 
Berkley Avenue Baptist Church. Burial was in the family lot in Magnolia 
Cemetery.

Norfolk Ledger Dispatch May 20, 1925


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