Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Woodward, Mott  February 12, 1910
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Virginian Pilot February 13, 1910

             TROLLEY CAR KILLS HELPLESS MAN WHO FELL ON TRACK

Mott Woodward, Twice Injured By Railroad, Crushed To Death Beneath Wheels Of 
Trolley Car In The County

After being run over by a passenger train when a young man, which cut off his 
right arm and being severely injured by the Norfolk and Western "Cannon Ball" 
about three years ago near Petersburg, Mott Woodward was killed last evening at 
7:06 o'clock between the corner of Lakeside Park and the E.H. Barnes mill road, 
by a street car.
He had fallen on the track of the Money Point division of the Norfolk and 
Portsmouth Traction Company and was struck by car No. 402, en route to Money 
Point, in charge of Motorman C.A. McPherson and Conductor E.L. Jenkins.
Motorman McPherson said his attention was attracted to something on the track by 
Harry Jordan, who was passing that way as his car came along.  He said when 
Jordan called to him he put on the brakes and at the same time he saw something 
on the track but was too close to stop the car.
Woodward had "taken too many" as he had often done before and had been carried 
to the place where he was killed on a car, and Special Officer Rogers had 
assisted him from the car to the side of the road, this being the nearest point 
to the place where he had been stopping, in the vicinity of the Elizabeth 
Knitting Mills.  Woodward had walked only a short distance from where he was 
left and fell on the track.
He was 40 years old and is survived by two sisters and three brothers.  The 
funeral will be conducted from the residence of his sisters in Twelfth street, 
Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and the interment will be in Magnolia Cemetery.
A coroners jury was impanelled last night by Justice Park L. Poindexter and 
after hearing such evidence as was before them an adjournment was taken until 
Monday evening at 8 o'clock.

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