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Name Earl Price
Gender Male
Birth? 14 Apr 1918 Nelson County, Kentucky
Death? 27 Nov 1930 Nelson County, Kentucky

PARENTS SEE BODIES OF 4 TAKEN FROM WRECK The Time (Louisville Times) Special Service Bardstown, KY. Nov. 28.-D.Y. Price, a section foreman: his wife and three children arrived at the Louisville & Nashville Railroad crossing in Nelsonville just in time to see train-men remove the bodies of their four other children whose automobile had been struck by the Southland, a fast passenger train en route to Jacksonville. Those killed were Mrs. Mildred Vittitow, 26 years old; Lucien Price; Coleman Price, 15, and Earl Price, 12. The family was on its way to eat Thanksgiving dinner with friends and the four children had been told by their father to drive on ahead. The view of the tracks at Nelsonville, nine miles south of Lebanon Junction, is unobstructed and onlookers were at a loss to account for the failure of the occupants of the car to see the train, unless it was due to glass frosted from the cold. The automobile drove squarely in front of the locomotive and was pitched fifty feet. Death was instantaneous for all. The train was in charge of Fred Whitehead, 2903 South Third Street, Louisville, engineer, and J.W. Strange, 1215 East Broadway. conductor. children in this family died on Nov 27