Newton County GaArchives News.....CAUGHT ON A TRESTLE March 12 1895
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Phyllis Thompson mandpthompson@bellsouth.net January 2, 2004, 10:53 pm

Georgia Enterprise
  Last Saturday night Mr. Fielder Ozburn and daughter, Miss Claude, and Mr. 
Robert M. White and Miss Maud Hardeman were returning home from church at
Hayston. They came down the railroad track and when on the 40 foot high
trestle, over Bear Creek, they discovered that the construction train was 
approaching and it was impossible for them to get off the trestle by running,
as both the young ladies tried it and fell between the crossties. Mr. Robert
White, with courage and great presence of mind, pulled them out and put them
on the side of the track where they had to swing off the trestle and hold
by their hands, while Mr. Robert White held them with his hands and kept
them from falling. After the train passed the entire party continued their
journey and reached home safely.
  Mr. White, although a young man, did not appear to be excited at all, and
told the young ladies and Mr. Ozborn to hold on to the cross ties until the
train passed, and then he would get them off the trestle. His cool courage
saved the parties from serious injury, if not from death. He has received
many compliments for his presence of mind in the hour of danger. Mr. Bob
White is now the hero of the day in that section.

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