The following newspaper clipping was submitted by Sadie (Ramey) Bove. It appeared in the Pike County News in the Fifty Years Ago section. One of the four who died in this tradgey was Rans Potter, brother of Edna (Potter) Ramey.

- Pike County, where 24 persons met death in automobile mishaps during 1937, suffered her first fatal motor accident of 1938 early Friday morning when four men rode to their deaths in the only vechile figuring in the initial tragedy of the year.

The four were killed instantly as the automobile in which they were riding crashed over a precipice at a spot known as Pool Point in the Breaks of the Big Sandy, three miles above Elkhorn City, and dropped 300 hundred feet to the rocky bed of the stream, partly submerging the car and badly mangling the bodies of the victims.

Although the death plunge took place near midnight the tradgey did not become known until more than 12 hours later. At 9 o'clock Jess Epling and Columbus Spears , residents of Virginia, noticed automobile tracks leading over the hill at Pool Point and the four in the car after a brief investigation. The hill at this point is almost perpendicular and the machine could not be reached from the road side of the river. These men notified Worley Potter, a farmer, who made the grusome discovery as he rowed a boat across the river to the machine.

"Potter" summoned aid and the task of rescuing bodies from the partly submerged car and transporting them to the railroad side of the stream required several minutes. The bodies were then taken to Elkhorn City on a railroad work car by George Holley , a section foreman for the Clinchfield Railroad Company.

So steep is the over the precipice over which the machine plunged that it is impossible for a wrecker to raise the car and it is believed only parts will be salvaged and the body permitted to remain in the stream. Hundreds of people Saturday and Sunday viewed the wreckage.

Several months ago another machine went over the same point but the tree which was knocked down in the fatal plunge of the four men held this car and all occupants escaped without serious injury.