Daily Herald, Mississippi
24 February 1913
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KILLED BY TRAIN AT GRAND BAY
William Westbrook, Station Agent, Frightfully Mutilated Under Box Car.
Mobile, February 24
In attempting to catch the caboose of a northbound freight train as it was leaving the station at Grand Bay, shortly before 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, William Westbrook, station agent for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company at Grand Bay, missed his footing and fell beneath the wheels of a freight car attached to the rear of the train, sustaining injuries from which he died a short time afterward.
He was picked up and given temporary medical attention until a special train could be gotten ready. He was placed aboard and rushed toward Mobile, but died before the train arrived here. Both arms and one leg were cut off and he sustained other injuries.
The man's body was turned over to Roche and Burke Undertaking Company here to be prepared for burial. At 2:30 o'clock Sunday night the body was shipped to Ocean Springs, Miss., where Westbrook lived.
Westbrook was about 27 years of age and married. His father, mother and several brothers live at Ocean Springs. His wife, it is said, was in Ocean Springs at the time of the accident.
William Westbrook was a brother of Fred Westbrook, day operator at the Biloxi Station.
