Charles D. KEYES killed in 1903 train wreck Alexandria VA
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Charles D. KEYES killed in 1903 train wreck Alexandria VA
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Posted: 8 Jun 2009 8:53PM GMT |
Classification: Death
Surnames: KEYES, KEYS, STANLAY, STANLEY, JOHNSON
Charles was the son of George W. Keyes (born about 1848 in probably Prince William County, Virginia). Some records say KEYS, but the later records say KEYES. I would appreciate hearing from people researching this family.
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The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
12 June 1903 (page 10)
transcription by Laura KEYES Perry
FATAL WRECK IN Virginia
C. D. Keyes, Of Alexandria, Killed And Three Others Injured.
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun]
ALEXANDRIA, VA., June 11 -- Charles D. Keyes was fatally injured and three others hurt in a head-on collision which occurred between a northbound work train on the Southern road near Ravensworth last night. The dead man was about 30 years old and was a railroad insurance agent. His hip was crushed, his arm and leg badly bruised, and he was otherwise injured. He died at the hospital here.
The others injured are:
NATHANIEL STANLAY, of Alexandria, brakeman, left leg severely cut.
A. B. JOHNSON, colored, Alexandria, fireman; cut about the face and bruised.
The collision occurred about 8 P M, between northbound local freight train No. 62 and a southbound work train at a point just 12 miles below Alexandria. The engines plowed into each other, the force of the shock wrecking several of the cars of the local freight and demolishing the few attached to the work engine. Both locomotives were overturned and several of the cars were derailed and demolished.
Young KEYES was found fastened to the ground with a portion of the wrecked engine on which he had ridden pressing against his right side. He was conscious and remained so for three hours, while efforts were being made to release him. But the trainmen were practically powerless until the wrecking train, which was made up here soon after the accident, reached the scene. Then it required a considerable time to remove the engine on account of the large mass of debris.
Officials state that the wreck was caused by the northbound train not stopping at Burke Station, where it had orders to pass the work train. It was late this morning before the track was cleared away and traffic resumed. In the meantime southbound trains were tied up here and northbound trains held below the wreck.
Mr. Keyes, who was fatally injured, was agent in this section for the Standard Life and Accident Insurance Company, and he traveled along the line of the Southern road in Virginia. He left Alexandria yesterday afternoon on No. 15, the passenger train for the Manassas branch, in company with his father, Mr. George W. Keyes, who is Inspector of engines on the Southern. The young man got off at Manassas and in the evening boarded the engine of No. 62 to return to Alexandria. He was riding in the cab when the collision occurred.
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The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
12 June 1903 (page 10)
transcription by Laura KEYES Perry
FATAL WRECK IN Virginia
C. D. Keyes, Of Alexandria, Killed And Three Others Injured.
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun]
ALEXANDRIA, VA., June 11 -- Charles D. Keyes was fatally injured and three others hurt in a head-on collision which occurred between a northbound work train on the Southern road near Ravensworth last night. The dead man was about 30 years old and was a railroad insurance agent. His hip was crushed, his arm and leg badly bruised, and he was otherwise injured. He died at the hospital here.
The others injured are:
NATHANIEL STANLAY, of Alexandria, brakeman, left leg severely cut.
A. B. JOHNSON, colored, Alexandria, fireman; cut about the face and bruised.
The collision occurred about 8 P M, between northbound local freight train No. 62 and a southbound work train at a point just 12 miles below Alexandria. The engines plowed into each other, the force of the shock wrecking several of the cars of the local freight and demolishing the few attached to the work engine. Both locomotives were overturned and several of the cars were derailed and demolished.
Young KEYES was found fastened to the ground with a portion of the wrecked engine on which he had ridden pressing against his right side. He was conscious and remained so for three hours, while efforts were being made to release him. But the trainmen were practically powerless until the wrecking train, which was made up here soon after the accident, reached the scene. Then it required a considerable time to remove the engine on account of the large mass of debris.
Officials state that the wreck was caused by the northbound train not stopping at Burke Station, where it had orders to pass the work train. It was late this morning before the track was cleared away and traffic resumed. In the meantime southbound trains were tied up here and northbound trains held below the wreck.
Mr. Keyes, who was fatally injured, was agent in this section for the Standard Life and Accident Insurance Company, and he traveled along the line of the Southern road in Virginia. He left Alexandria yesterday afternoon on No. 15, the passenger train for the Manassas branch, in company with his father, Mr. George W. Keyes, who is Inspector of engines on the Southern. The young man got off at Manassas and in the evening boarded the engine of No. 62 to return to Alexandria. He was riding in the cab when the collision occurred.