The State vs. the Dead Body of Henry Thompson, Allen Johnson, N. W. Lafoy, M. J. Wilson, Jefferson Kitsinger

Date: 
June 17, 1876

Deceased

Henry Thompson
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that their deaths were caused by accident by an engine and car falling through a defective trestle over Broadway Creek

Allen Johnson
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that their deaths were caused by accident by an engine and car falling through a defective trestle over Broadway Creek

N. W. Lafoy
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that their deaths were caused by accident by an engine and car falling through a defective trestle over Broadway Creek

M. J. Wilson
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that their deaths were caused by accident by an engine and car falling through a defective trestle over Broadway Creek

Jefferson Kitsinger
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that their deaths were caused by accident by an engine and car falling through a defective trestle over Broadway Creek

Coroner

Coroner: 
William J. Brown
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Broadway trestle on the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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