Through A Burning Trestle
Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
October
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text
BlRMlNOHAM, Ala., Oct 2G. - Early Saturdar mor-Ding at Hatehet's creek, 70 miles east of Birmingham on the Columbia & Western road, a freight train loaded with coal ran into a training trestle. The engine and two cars passed over, but eleven cars and the caboose went down. Conductor A. Rice and Flagman L. R. Cravvford, who were in the caboose. were killed and their bodies were burnect, toijether with the train. Engïneer .1. D. Hendrix in attempting to reseue them waa badly hurt. Sparks from a passing locomotivc caused the fire.
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Old News
Ann Arbor Register