The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-17
II COSTS MONEY
To KILL FOLKS
Two Damage Suits Against
the Railroads.
A THIRD ONE Is LIKELY
THE KILLING OF ERNEST
A THIRD ONE is LIKELY
THE KILLING OF ERNEST
YOUNG AT DURHAM.
AN IMPROPER CROSSING WAS THE CAUSE
The Young Man Has Relatives in This City
He was Very Ambitious to Complete His
Education And Was Work king 10
That End.


Yesterday was an rulfor innate day for
the railroads.
Two suits fer damages We're instituted
against the rSeaboard road for killing
men: and the Southern railway killed q
man in such manner as to make II
likely that it also will have a suit asains'
il fer damages.
The Seaboards suits are as follows:
j. III. Dunston, administrator of Isaac
Jones VS.. the Raleigh and Augusta Rail
road. Boone, Bryan and Biggs, of Dur
ham, attorneys for the plaintiff.
Z. c. Beckwith, administrator of
Daniel Num- VS.. Raleigh and CASTOR an
Raleigh and Augusta Railroad companies
Both Jones and Nun1l We're negroes.
Jones was a preacher and had been L
Raleigh. He WAS ON his way home iii
his wagon, when he was killed by tht
afternoon passenger train oll the Raleigh
and Augusta road at 4 crossing neal
Assbluy The crossing is a very dan
gerous one for the reason THAI one APP
preaching it can see Il coming train for
only short distance.
Daniel Nunn was an emplOEc on the
Seaboard yards here and was no. killed
outright, but he received injuries from
the effects Of which he died several Gays
later
In neither Of these eases is the amount
asked known, as the complaints have NOT
vet been, filed.
The facts i'll regard 10 the S0utheIn's
killing of Mr.. Young at Durham yester-
day are told in another column.
Those who We're on the train and Those
who are acquainted with the locality
attribute rhe tragedy to three facts:
]. That the railroad allowed humber
10 be piled at the crossing ON both sides
Of the railroad and Oh both sides Of tn"
county road-to a height OF six or eight
feet-thus making Il death trap for ali
pas>ers >osfg tbs crossing, - >.. q
=. That the engineer failed to DOW Tor
the crossing until nc saw the man on the
track 80 or 70 feet ahead Cf hiln.
3. That there was a train ON another
track. parallel 10 the Southern. and this,
together. with the engine coming down
on Young at the rate Of - miles an hour,
greatly confused him. and caused him to
stand daZed for IL moment. That mo-
1nent was fatal.
The first news of the tragedy reached
here about II O'Clock Yesterday, when
the train that did the killing arrived.
Mr.. !. Crawford BiggS, who WAS on
the train said he didn't hear the engineer
blow for the crossing, but he did hear
several sharp whistles just as the train
was about to strike its victim. He
thought. as best he could Judge. that
the engine must have been within 10 Or
15 feet of Mr.. Young when the whistle
first blew. When the train came to .
full stop he was some 200 feet in thF
rear OF the train. dead.
He had been struck on the right side
turned clear around and thrown upon the
other track His legs were lying upon
the track and his head i'll a pool of blood
on the ground between the two tracks.
Mr. Biggs did not know whether the
body was otherwise nlanglod or not. The
crossing he said was near Fast Dur
ham, between Durham and East Dur
ham and in sight OF the mouse at which
Mr.. Young was stopping.
Ernest Young was the son Of Rober1
Young, who lives near Morrisville. IL
was a nephew of Sheriff NJ. w. l'a@
and OF Ex-Clpl'k Of Court d. II. Young
Of this city, his father being Mr.. Young S
brother and his mother Sheriff Page
neice
He was young man cf the highest
character and Of brilliant promise He
was working 10 complete his education
and expected to enter Wake Forest Col
lege next September. having won a SchGi.
arship in that institution To cnabl4
him to do this he had BEEN teaching. anC
his school being at an end he came here
last week for advice as to what steps
would be necessary to secure the position
of enumeration of the census for Cary
township this summer.
From here he Went to Durham To spend
a few days with his brother and uncle.
who live there
The body was brought TO MorrisvilI,
on the afternoon train.