Oakland Tribune / December 24, 1897
STRUCK AND KILLED BY A BERKELEY TRAIN.
George Smith, a Rancher, Meets Tragic Death This Morning
He Had Come to Spend the Holidays With His Brother’s Family
George Smith, a brother of Fred Smith of East Berkeley, was struck by the Berkeley local at the E street station this morning. He died in the patrol wagon on the way to the morgue shortly afterward.
Smith had been employed on the ranch of H. J. Pereau, a conductor on the Berkeley local. The Pereau ranch is at Vacaville, California, and Smith had the management of it. He was returning to Berkeley to spend the holidays, having