Transportation

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say, that the said William roberts came to his death by accident and carelessness on his part while attempting to get off of the Belton & Walhalla train while in motion; the train running over and crushing him; and that his death was not caused by any dereliction of duty on the part of the rail-road employees or by fault of any other person or persons.

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that. . .near Pelzer Depot. . .Goodrich was then and there killed by the Greenville and Columbia train having accidentally run over her.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

he must have been struck by the over head bridge at Felton 4 miles west of And[erson].

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said T. J. Baydon came to his death by being under the influence of liquors and being on the Grenville & Columbia R. R. Trac [sic] and was run over by the down freight train (No. 6) and instantly killed

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that their deaths were caused by accident by an engine and car falling through a defective trestle over Broadway Creek

Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that their deaths were caused by accident by an engine and car falling through a defective trestle over Broadway Creek

Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that their deaths were caused by accident by an engine and car falling through a defective trestle over Broadway Creek

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that their deaths were caused by accident by an engine and car falling through a defective trestle over Broadway Creek

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that their deaths were caused by accident by an engine and car falling through a defective trestle over Broadway Creek

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the deceased came to his death . . .by the unavoidable running of the lumber train of the G & C R Road into the passenger train of the Blue Ridge Railroad

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