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Detective

Horace C. Williams

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Police Department — Baltimore, MD

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch October 11, 1930

Age 35

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

The Vigil Panel 60 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 21

Incident

Detective Horace Williams was killed when he was struck by a train in the Oakley railroad yards near Duck Creek Road in Cincinnati, Ohio.

He was hiding underneath a boxcar in an attempt to locate thieves. Another train backed into the boxcar he was hiding underneath causing him to suffer a fatal head injury.

Detective Williams was a veteran of the Ohio National Guard and Alabama National Guard.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and three children.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Detective Williams gave the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Police Department 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the Baltimore community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Baltimore, MD

Platform Identity borpd.rr.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 11, 1930

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

Age 35

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Horace C. Williams served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Detective Horace C. Williams is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.

In MD, 140 of 377 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 37.1% of this state's fallen. That is 37.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Police Department, 8 of 22 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 36.4% of this agency's fallen.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Police Department

of 22 officers

36.4% Accident

MD — Statewide

140

of 377 officers

37.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Accident