BIRD, Reuben – (d. 1906)
Title: Track-boss Killed by Negroes
Knoxville, Tenn., March 20 – Reuben BIRD, aged 26, white, employed as a track-boss on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad work fifteen miles from this city, was shot and fatally wounded today by negroes of his working gang who refused to go to work. Two bullets entered his body, in the right side and the other in the abdomen. BIRD was hurried to the hospital in this city where he died within 15 minutes after he had entered. Several suspects were arrested by members of Sheriff’s posse, but none proved to be the right parties.
Source: Daily Record (Greensboro, NC) – March 21, 1906