W H Rogers was 25 years old. He was a black laborer employed by the NC&StL Railway. Mr. Rogers was married. His father Walter Rogers and his mother Ester Merrywood were both born in Tennessee. He had a relative or family friend W A Westen who lived at 166 West Terrace, Chattanooga Tennessee. He died at Dutchman's Curve of internal injuries and shock. He was buried in Chattanooga on July 11, 1918.