Asheville, Oct. 19. – Robert CORDELL, a young man employed in the round house of the Southern Railway Company hear, was run over by a railway train near here last night, and this afternoon he died of the injuries he received. He was found beside the track at 2 o’clock this morning with both legs cut off below the knees. Mr. CORDELL stated that he was walking along the railroad track going from his work to his home, when he was seized with an attack of dizziness and fell on the tracks and was run over by a train later in the night.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 20, 1905