George Edgar Wilson (1868-1930 ) was a
35 year veteran freight conductor for the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. In 1930 after making a phone
call on the track phone he turned and
accidently walked in front of the shifting train he was conductor of, in the Laurel
Delaware yard. His hand was severed
and his head and body badly crushed.
Quick thinking from the engineer had Wilson body loaded up and the
locomotive made a 16 mile run to Salisbury where an ambulance was waiting to
take him to the hospital. With strong
expectations he would live, he died six days later.
George Wilson was the son of George
Washington Wilson (1845-1915) and Margaret R. Wilson (1845-1906). He married in 1892 Pauline Virden Messick
(1866-1926) Six children survived him; George, Landis, Clarence, Alton, Eugene
and Lydia. He lived at 106 Grove Street.
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