The Raleigh Herald, Beckley, West Virginia
Friday, September 29, 1916, page 1
A very serious and regrettable accident occurred late Thursday afternoon on the line of the Virginian between this city and Mabscott, that resulted in the death of Miss Captola Lewis and serious injury to her companion, John Black.
Miss Lewis, who is sixteen years of age and a high school student at Mabscott, where she lives, had been to Beckley to visit friends. The hard rain of Thursday afternoon prevented her from returning home until very late. In fact, it was getting dark when she started home accompanied by John Black, merchant in West Beckley. They went down the railroad leading to Mabscott, both walking under one parasol. In the meantime the Virginian train had come into the Beckley station, very late and after discharging passengers was backing down to the junction. The train came upon the unsuspecting girl and man from behind, while the rain was pouring in such volume as to make hearing almost impossible. Without warning Miss Lewis was caught, knocked down and run over before the train could be stopped. She was killed instantly. Her left arm being cut off and one wheel passing over her throat and shoulder, nearly severing the head from the body.
Mr Black was fortunately knocked out from under the wheels and received severe injuries to his shoulder and had several ribs broken. He was removed to the Coleman Hospital where chances for his recovery are good.
Miss Lewis was the daughter of Mrs Lizzie E Lewis, of Mabscott. Her mother is a widow and it is peculiarly sad for her in the death of her eldest daughter. This is the third tragic death in this family in the past two years. Two years or more ago Mrs Lewis stood helpless on the banks of a river in Virginia and watched her husband, brother and little son drown without being able to assist them. At the same time a son of M S Bowers, of Mabscott, was drowned.
Miss Lewis is survived by her mother, a brother Edward, who lives at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Ada, Arvil, Berwood and little Mark Lewis.
The young lady was well respected with a bright future before her, just entering high school and at the point where she was of great assistance to her widowed mother. Her death is very unfortunate for her family.
Rose & Turner took charge of the body and prepared it for shipment to Pearisburg, Va, where interment will be made by the side of her father.
The Messenger, Beckley, West Virginia
Tuesday, October 3, 1916, page 1
The funeral of Miss Capitola Lewis was held on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in charge of Rev W C Bair, her pastor, at the Union church at Mabscott.
The service was peculiarly touching, the solemnity of the occasion having been much greater due to the untimely death of this lovable girl of 17 years. Her friends and companions Misses Sadie Robertson, Rebecca Cook, Nearie Reilly, Thelma Thomas, Macil Pittman, Laura Lilly, May Brammer and Cassie Walker were flower girls, bearing beautiful floral emblems which they held during the service.
The pall bearers were Charles Allen, B Killinger, E E Dillon, Robert Allen, G W Walker, J B Kirk. The long procession of relatives and friends proceeded at the close of the services to Wildwood cemetery in Beckley where interment was made in charge of C C Rose, undertaker.
Friday, September 29, 1916, page 1
A very serious and regrettable accident occurred late Thursday afternoon on the line of the Virginian between this city and Mabscott, that resulted in the death of Miss Captola Lewis and serious injury to her companion, John Black.
Miss Lewis, who is sixteen years of age and a high school student at Mabscott, where she lives, had been to Beckley to visit friends. The hard rain of Thursday afternoon prevented her from returning home until very late. In fact, it was getting dark when she started home accompanied by John Black, merchant in West Beckley. They went down the railroad leading to Mabscott, both walking under one parasol. In the meantime the Virginian train had come into the Beckley station, very late and after discharging passengers was backing down to the junction. The train came upon the unsuspecting girl and man from behind, while the rain was pouring in such volume as to make hearing almost impossible. Without warning Miss Lewis was caught, knocked down and run over before the train could be stopped. She was killed instantly. Her left arm being cut off and one wheel passing over her throat and shoulder, nearly severing the head from the body.
Mr Black was fortunately knocked out from under the wheels and received severe injuries to his shoulder and had several ribs broken. He was removed to the Coleman Hospital where chances for his recovery are good.
Miss Lewis was the daughter of Mrs Lizzie E Lewis, of Mabscott. Her mother is a widow and it is peculiarly sad for her in the death of her eldest daughter. This is the third tragic death in this family in the past two years. Two years or more ago Mrs Lewis stood helpless on the banks of a river in Virginia and watched her husband, brother and little son drown without being able to assist them. At the same time a son of M S Bowers, of Mabscott, was drowned.
Miss Lewis is survived by her mother, a brother Edward, who lives at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Ada, Arvil, Berwood and little Mark Lewis.
The young lady was well respected with a bright future before her, just entering high school and at the point where she was of great assistance to her widowed mother. Her death is very unfortunate for her family.
Rose & Turner took charge of the body and prepared it for shipment to Pearisburg, Va, where interment will be made by the side of her father.
The Messenger, Beckley, West Virginia
Tuesday, October 3, 1916, page 1
The funeral of Miss Capitola Lewis was held on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in charge of Rev W C Bair, her pastor, at the Union church at Mabscott.
The service was peculiarly touching, the solemnity of the occasion having been much greater due to the untimely death of this lovable girl of 17 years. Her friends and companions Misses Sadie Robertson, Rebecca Cook, Nearie Reilly, Thelma Thomas, Macil Pittman, Laura Lilly, May Brammer and Cassie Walker were flower girls, bearing beautiful floral emblems which they held during the service.
The pall bearers were Charles Allen, B Killinger, E E Dillon, Robert Allen, G W Walker, J B Kirk. The long procession of relatives and friends proceeded at the close of the services to Wildwood cemetery in Beckley where interment was made in charge of C C Rose, undertaker.
The Raleigh Herald, Beckley, West Virginia
Friday, September 29, 1916, page 1
A very serious and regrettable accident occurred late Thursday afternoon on the line of the Virginian between this city and Mabscott, that resulted in the death of Miss Captola Lewis and serious injury to her companion, John Black.
Miss Lewis, who is sixteen years of age and a high school student at Mabscott, where she lives, had been to Beckley to visit friends. The hard rain of Thursday afternoon prevented her from returning home until very late. In fact, it was getting dark when she started home accompanied by John Black, merchant in West Beckley. They went down the railroad leading to Mabscott, both walking under one parasol. In the meantime the Virginian train had come into the Beckley station, very late and after discharging passengers was backing down to the junction. The train came upon the unsuspecting girl and man from behind, while the rain was pouring in such volume as to make hearing almost impossible. Without warning Miss Lewis was caught, knocked down and run over before the train could be stopped. She was killed instantly. Her left arm being cut off and one wheel passing over her throat and shoulder, nearly severing the head from the body.
Mr Black was fortunately knocked out from under the wheels and received severe injuries to his shoulder and had several ribs broken. He was removed to the Coleman Hospital where chances for his recovery are good.
Miss Lewis was the daughter of Mrs Lizzie E Lewis, of Mabscott. Her mother is a widow and it is peculiarly sad for her in the death of her eldest daughter. This is the third tragic death in this family in the past two years. Two years or more ago Mrs Lewis stood helpless on the banks of a river in Virginia and watched her husband, brother and little son drown without being able to assist them. At the same time a son of M S Bowers, of Mabscott, was drowned.
Miss Lewis is survived by her mother, a brother Edward, who lives at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Ada, Arvil, Berwood and little Mark Lewis.
The young lady was well respected with a bright future before her, just entering high school and at the point where she was of great assistance to her widowed mother. Her death is very unfortunate for her family.
Rose & Turner took charge of the body and prepared it for shipment to Pearisburg, Va, where interment will be made by the side of her father.
The Messenger, Beckley, West Virginia
Tuesday, October 3, 1916, page 1
The funeral of Miss Capitola Lewis was held on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in charge of Rev W C Bair, her pastor, at the Union church at Mabscott.
The service was peculiarly touching, the solemnity of the occasion having been much greater due to the untimely death of this lovable girl of 17 years. Her friends and companions Misses Sadie Robertson, Rebecca Cook, Nearie Reilly, Thelma Thomas, Macil Pittman, Laura Lilly, May Brammer and Cassie Walker were flower girls, bearing beautiful floral emblems which they held during the service.
The pall bearers were Charles Allen, B Killinger, E E Dillon, Robert Allen, G W Walker, J B Kirk. The long procession of relatives and friends proceeded at the close of the services to Wildwood cemetery in Beckley where interment was made in charge of C C Rose, undertaker.
Friday, September 29, 1916, page 1
A very serious and regrettable accident occurred late Thursday afternoon on the line of the Virginian between this city and Mabscott, that resulted in the death of Miss Captola Lewis and serious injury to her companion, John Black.
Miss Lewis, who is sixteen years of age and a high school student at Mabscott, where she lives, had been to Beckley to visit friends. The hard rain of Thursday afternoon prevented her from returning home until very late. In fact, it was getting dark when she started home accompanied by John Black, merchant in West Beckley. They went down the railroad leading to Mabscott, both walking under one parasol. In the meantime the Virginian train had come into the Beckley station, very late and after discharging passengers was backing down to the junction. The train came upon the unsuspecting girl and man from behind, while the rain was pouring in such volume as to make hearing almost impossible. Without warning Miss Lewis was caught, knocked down and run over before the train could be stopped. She was killed instantly. Her left arm being cut off and one wheel passing over her throat and shoulder, nearly severing the head from the body.
Mr Black was fortunately knocked out from under the wheels and received severe injuries to his shoulder and had several ribs broken. He was removed to the Coleman Hospital where chances for his recovery are good.
Miss Lewis was the daughter of Mrs Lizzie E Lewis, of Mabscott. Her mother is a widow and it is peculiarly sad for her in the death of her eldest daughter. This is the third tragic death in this family in the past two years. Two years or more ago Mrs Lewis stood helpless on the banks of a river in Virginia and watched her husband, brother and little son drown without being able to assist them. At the same time a son of M S Bowers, of Mabscott, was drowned.
Miss Lewis is survived by her mother, a brother Edward, who lives at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Ada, Arvil, Berwood and little Mark Lewis.
The young lady was well respected with a bright future before her, just entering high school and at the point where she was of great assistance to her widowed mother. Her death is very unfortunate for her family.
Rose & Turner took charge of the body and prepared it for shipment to Pearisburg, Va, where interment will be made by the side of her father.
The Messenger, Beckley, West Virginia
Tuesday, October 3, 1916, page 1
The funeral of Miss Capitola Lewis was held on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in charge of Rev W C Bair, her pastor, at the Union church at Mabscott.
The service was peculiarly touching, the solemnity of the occasion having been much greater due to the untimely death of this lovable girl of 17 years. Her friends and companions Misses Sadie Robertson, Rebecca Cook, Nearie Reilly, Thelma Thomas, Macil Pittman, Laura Lilly, May Brammer and Cassie Walker were flower girls, bearing beautiful floral emblems which they held during the service.
The pall bearers were Charles Allen, B Killinger, E E Dillon, Robert Allen, G W Walker, J B Kirk. The long procession of relatives and friends proceeded at the close of the services to Wildwood cemetery in Beckley where interment was made in charge of C C Rose, undertaker.
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