Carter Rogers is Drawn Under the Wheels of a Traction Engine and Instantly Killed.

About 4:30 o'clock Wednesday after noon a heavy gloom was again cast over our little city when the sad news reached us that Carter Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Rogers, of this city, had been instantly killed on the farm of J. H. Sevier, about three and a half miles southwest of town. But little was learned of the real facts until some of those who witnessed this sad sight arrived in town about an hour afterward. Immediately after the accident Swift & Beatty, the undertakers, were notified and at once responded, conveying the body to their undertaking rooms about 6 o'clock. A large crowd of anxious and sympathizing friends awaited the remains and to learn the particulars, as learned, are about as follows: The young man, who was nearly 19 years old, was one of the employees of J. F. Balsey, working with a threshing machine and, as had been his custom, at times to assist in shoveling coal in to the engine, he was at the time discharging this duty when the accident occurred. On all traction engines there is a device known as a clutch which acts to throw it in and out of gear, and from some unknown cause this clutch worked loose. In doing so the motion of the engine was reversed suddenly, and shot backwards like a flash. So sudden was it that he was unable to step aside and was pinioned to the ground by the huge wheel of the engine and crushed to death in an instant. The cleats on the heavy wheel, first caught his heel and passed full length over his body. Willie Balsley, the engineer, who was a few feet away, hastily jumped on the engine and reversed it, but too late to save his life.

After the body had been prepared for burial it was removed to his home about 5 o'clock Thursday morning. At 8 o'clock Coroner J. H. Spencer arrived and at once empaneled a jury who, after hearing the evidence, rendered a verdict in accordance to about the same facts as here stated. The boy's untimely death comes as a heavy shock to his parents, and more especially to his mother, who is in ill health and they have the sympathy of everybody in their sad bereavement. Funeral services were held at the home Thursday at 6 p.m., after which interment was made in Rogers cemetery.