Services for Charles V. Hackney, 54 year old veteran Rock Island railroad fireman who was fatally injured Monday when his head struck a railroad bridge girder east of the city, will be at 2pm Thursday in First Christian Church, EL Reno. Burial will also be in El Reno.

An employee for  almost 30 years  he died late Monday afternoon in an Oklahoma City hospital from injuries received in a freak accident a few hours earlier.

Hackney, who lives in Shawnee, is survived by a wife, a son, Victory, student in Yale university, medical school, New Haven, Conn; two sisters Mrs. W.D. Walker of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Charles H. THOMPKINS of El Reno, and one brother, Herbert HACKNEY, Clinton.

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Memorial services will be arranged by Wilson funeral home Wednesday after the arrival of a son , Victor Hackney,

Mr. Hackney, 55 years of age came to El Reno from Kansas in 1906 and had worked for the Rock Island railroad continuously ever since. He moved to Shawnee about 6 years ago. Besides the railroad union , he belonged to the Masonic lodge. He was serving as fireman on west bound, Memphis-Californian, when the accident occurred early Monday afternoon at the North Canadian river bridge a mile east of Oklahoma City. He was leaning backward out of the cab window checking a water gauge when the train approached the bridge and a bridge girder struck his head according to C.E. GOULD, also of Shawnee, the engineer. Taken to an Oklahoma City Hospital, he died for the head injury a few hours later.