Willey McDyer
Kentucky Post, 8 September 1925
KILLED BY TRAIN
Willey McDyer, 40, C&O Railroad man, of Brent Ky. was killed
early Tuesday about four blocks from his home. His lifeless body was found lying
between the rails of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad near Brent Station. His head
and left arm was severed. The body was found by John Edwards, lumber yard
employee of Brent, about 5 o'clock.
He and several companions were on their way to the river, intending to take a short boat ride, when he discovered the gruesome object lying between the tracks. McDyer was lying with his feet near the south rail and his shoulder just inside the north rail. He was about 100 feet from the railroad station. Dr. Walter B Hughes, Campbell Co coroner, who was notified, withheld a verdict pending an investigation. Dr. Hughes said Tuesday, he could find no signs of violence about McDyer's body. If the man had been standing or walking across the tracks when struck, the coroner pointed out, he would have been thrown to the side of the tracks.
This leads to the belief that McDyer was lying across the rails when the train approached, he said. C&O RR official says, although no passenger trains pass that station during the early hours, several freight trains do, between midnight and 5 am. None of the engineers, however, have reported the accident, they said.
McDyer, who was unmarried, had lived with mother. Besides the mother, he is survived by a sister and three brothers. Coroner Hughes ordered the body removed to the Charles A Smith & Sons Morgue at Newport. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed.
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Kentucky Post, 9 September 1925
Willey McDyer, 40, C&O RR section man of Brent Ky. who was killed on the C&O RR tracks near Brent Station early Tuesday will be buried Thursday morning. Services will be held at the Cold Spring Methodist Church at 11 o'clock. Burial will be in Asbury Cemetery.
McDyer's lifeless body was found between the rails about 100 feet from the station by John Edward and companions about 5 o'clock. He head and left arm were severed.