The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-02-03
SADACCIDENT
KILLED BY FREIGHT TRAIN.

Fourteen-Year-Old Lafayette Lambert
Meets Horrible Death-Boy Mangled
Almost Beyond Recognition.
Friday afternoon at 4:35 o'clock La
fayette Lambert, the 14-year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Lambert, living on
the corner of Virginia avenue and Broad
street, met a horrible death on the yards
of the Southern railway, in front of the
Bellevue hotel.
From eye witnesses it seems that
young Lambert jumped on freight No.
Is at the passenger depot and rode some
S5 or more feet, when he jumped off.
The train was moving slowly and he
again caught the iron rods ON the side
of q box car, but his. feet failed to find
the foot rod, or axle box, when he lost
control and fell to the ground. Whether
he tried to roll out of the way or wheth
or the force of the fall caused his body
to roll is matter of conjecture, but the
wheels caught his clothing and pulled
his body underneath the train, crushing
and mangling the form almost beyond
recognition.
When the train had passed over the
body on its way to the next station only
fragments of the body were left to tell
the story of the crushing out of a yoling
life so full of promise. Here and there
along the track were found fragments of
the body, an arm, parts of the skull
and bowels, twisted and mangled legs
and the major portion of the trunk of his
body, while the last thing to be found
further west was the head, completely
severed at the neck and one side of the
face crushed with enough of the head
left to show his facial features.
When the editor arrived on the scene
the flesh OF parts of the body was
! 7tx4i itching, showing that the accident had
just happened.
The fragments of the body were picked
up by Undertakers j. w. and R. H. Sc
chrest and carried to their parlors, to
be ;prepared for burial.
The young man was well and favora-
bly, known. a bright gentlemanly fellow
and studeestssts the high sehaglzr He9.isl
survived by father and mother, five
sisters, Misses Bessie, Emily, Corinna,
Lola and Esther, and two brothers,
Messrs Gabriel and Fred.
The funeral services were conducted
from ST. Mary's Episcopal church Sun
day afternoon at 8 o'clock, attended by
large crowd of sympathizing friends. The
services were in charge of Rev. L. W.
Blackwelder, assisted by Archdeacon
Hardin, of Salisbury.
The floral offerings were very pretty.
The schooImates> of the deceased attend
ed in a body. Lafayette had not missed
a Sunday school lesson at his church In
FIVE years
The pallbearers were: Mesers. M G.
Crowson, Ed P. Parker, Robert Brock
EFT. Jr.. Fl. I. Coffeld, AID. Brockett and
P. S. johnson.
: The family have the sympathy OF all
in their very sad bereavement.
Faints When Hears of Brothers Death.
Miss Bess Lambert, who is employed
at the office of Attorney I. ). Cold,
heard that her brother Lafayette was
killed. Running down street to the store
of the Leonard -Beavans- -Stamey Co., she
asked Miss Wilson, a clerk, If she could
tell her if the report was true. Miss
Wilson in order to break the news to her
replied that he was badly hurt, where
upon Miss Lambert tainted and it was
several minutes before she regained
consciousness.
hIr. Beavans, the manager, rushed to
the drug store for restoratives while ply
sicians were summoned. DIR. jackson took
Miss Lambert home in his auto and re-
mained with her until out of danger.