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Fatal car train crash kills mother and daughter
Two women, Bertha Emily Phillips 80 and her daughter Beatrice Phillips Carter Wright 54, died when their 1963 car was struck by a train at the Southern Railway crossing on Prospect Street near English Road. The train, with three engines and 18 cars, traveled about 40 mph. the car about 7 or 8 mph. The crash occurred at 2:20 p.m. The drivers were reported to have been en route to an English Road drive-in restaurant. Both families are noted with extensive survivor details and funeral arrangements follow.
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Prospect Street
English Road
Bertha Emily Phillips
Beatrice Phillips Carter Wright
W. Green
Eugene T. Terrell
Phillips
Washington
Atlanta
Southern Ewes
Wright
Inglish Road
Yadkin County
Will
Emily Perdue
High Point
Pickett
Emmis Street
Arthur Perdue
Maryland
Dora Bell
Rock Hill
Kings Mountain
Charlie C
Bertha Emily Perdue Phillips
English Street Baptist Church
Arthur Williard Wright
Melvin M. Carter
145 Manor