The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-07-08
a SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
ZolIie Daniel. Of BrOOkhaVen, Suddenly
Killed BY d Freight Train at
BOeue ChittO.

BOeue ChittO.
Zollie Daniel, the well.known
merchant Of Brookhaven, met d
Sudden death 1T Bogue Chitto
saturday night about s o'clock By
being struck by tbs engine Of q
lsouth bound freight train, as be
was attempting to board No. 8,
1.-The north bound passenger train,
Ito come home.
AS last Saturday, the 4th, was a
general holiday, Mr.. Daniel bad
gone down to Bogue Chitto dur
ling the afternoon On the train that
passes BFookhayen at 1856 to
lspend few hours with his
friends, Messrs. Sam and Nathan
Twin, intending to return on the
first train that night. He spent
1.-THE afternoon and evening with
these friends and just about the
time No. 6 passenger blew for
| the station, Mr.. Daniel left the
lZwirn store which is on the hill
some so yards west of the Bogue
Chitto depot, and started to the
depot to take this train. 1t
seems, however, that just as he
reached The main line Of the dou-
Eble track on the west side of the
| depot, a through freight train,
going at the rate Of 25 or 80 miles
an hour, plunged out of the deep
RAILROAD cut which eifectually CON
ceals trains from the north on that
| side until they virtually reach the
crossing. The northbound pas
Isengef train dashed up at the
same instant with laundering
noise and evidently Mr.. Daniel,
who lad his thoughts and inter-
lest uttered on the passenger
train shich he intended to take,
Ibid nc see or hear the freight
tra;n i stilstoo late and was struck
By thd reight engine and knock
ed 40 so feet southwark and
across he space between the two
main aks and fell under one OF
the pa senger coaches before it
had come to full stop. Mr..
Higdon Sumrall, of BrookhaYen,
and possibly others, who were on
/ the passenger train as it rolled
into Bogue Chitto, saw Mr.. Dan
Iiel just as the freight engine
struck him, but did not recognize
who he was at the moment. By
THE time the train stopped and
Dr.. Thompson and other friends
of Brookhaven reached him and
pulled MIN from under the side of
The passenger train he was draw
ling his 4last breath and never
spoke.
It is learned that one Of his
Isides was crushed in, a leg broken,
an arm mutilated and a deep cash
made on his head, it not being
definitely known whether all of
these injuries were received from
the freight engine or partly from
the wheels of the passenger coach
es.
The body Of the unfortunate
man was brought on to Brook
haven that night and on Sunday
afternoon the funeral took place
from the family residence and
was one of the most largely at
tended ever seen in this city, be-
ling conducted BY Rabbi Max
LewinthaI.
Mr.. Daniel was AZ years of age
and had been a resident of BroUK
haven for about 25 years. After
lserying as a salesman for a num-
fber of years, he went into busi-
1ness with J. Fl. WilIoughby, un-
/ der the firm name of Daniel &
| WilIoughby. Eight or ten years
ago be bought bis partner out and
lsince that time has conducted a
prosperous general mercantile
business on his own account.
Mr. Daniel was always genial,
Ehospitable md accommodating TO
| his friends, whom he numbered
lby the scores. and possessed many
lexeellent personal traits. He
leaves a wife and beautiful
young daughter, just grown, who
was the idol Of her fathers heart,
land the tenderest sympathy of the
whole community goes out to
these sorely bereaVed ones.