1958 - N&W Employee Killed at Shenandoah

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Roanoke Times - March 12, 1958

N&W Employee Killed at Shenandoah

    SHENANDOAH, March 11 (AP) A 56-year-old Norfolk and Western 
Railroad worker died early today of injuries suffered when he was run 
over by three diesel units of an N&W train in company yards here 
nearly two hours earlier.
    Police identified the victim as John E. Whitehead of Shenandoah. 
He was employed as a helper carman. Authorities said there were no 
witnesses to the accident and that apparently Whitehead failed to see 
the train in the fog and mist that covered the area late Monday 
night. They said he apparently was walking through the yards at the time.
    Other yard workers found him at 11 p.m.

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