The February 2009 edition of Maryland Life has an article I did on railroad engineer, George Askew. He was killed in 1903 in a tragic railroad accident on a bridge over the Elk Creek. What most interested me in this story was that his great-grandson, an investigator for the federal government, walked in one day with the railroad man’s pocket watch in hand. Family stories had it that he was killed in Elkton, but there weren’t many details beyond that so the relatives wanted to know if we could piece together this story. I said I thought so and this tragic story emerged, providing details on the pocket watch forever frozen in time at 8:43. It was the exact time Engineer Askew died, according to the coroner’s report.
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