Harry LEWIS, a wagoner of Edgecombe County, NC., lost his life under very peculiar circumstances the other day.  He was driving a double team near the railroad track when the bridle of one of the horses came off.  He got down and was putting it on again when a train came along and the horses began to jump and plunge.  The wagon tongue was forced into the driver’s breast, killing him almost instantly.

Source: Roanoke Beacon,9 August 1889.  Available online at digitalnc.org.