Fell Asleep on Track and Killed
Clarence Colvin, a B. & O. Brakeman, Struck by No. 4 at Flagg’s Crossing Sunday Morning.
Clarence P. Colvin, aged 30 years of age, a Baltimore and Ohio freight brakeman residing near Bakerton, was instantly killed Sunday morning about 5 o’clock at Flagg’s crossing, a mile and a half east of this city by passenger train No. 4.
Colvin was on an eastbound freight train, using the freight track. While the engine, which had been uncoupled from the train had gone ahead a couple hundred yards to the water tank, was taking water Colvin sat down on the end of a railroad tie on the east-bound passenger track and fell asleep. Before his engine got back, No. 4 came along and struck him, hurling him in the air and dashing his brains out against one of the ties.
Found Colvin’s lifeless body lying along the tracks. It was sent to this city and taken in charge by Undertaker Wilen. The body was sent home this morning on No. 40 and the funeral will be held tomorrow, with interment at Charles Town.
Mr. Colvin leaves a wife but no children. Two brothers, Louis and Peter Colvin, of Charles Town, also survive for several years.
He had been employed by the B. & O. Coroner W. R. Kline was notified of the accident and he went down to the scene, but after learning the circumstances of it he decided that an inquest was unnecessary.
