Washington County GaArchives News.....Train accident claims Asa Thomas Lindsey September 4, 1925
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Mary Esther Lord Smith http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006600 July 28, 2013, 11:29 pm

Wrightsville Newspaper September 4, 1925
Accident on the Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad near Idlewyld in Johnson Co. 
Ga. One man was killed, several others injured when a combination passenger and 
freight train of the Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad was derailed after 
running onto a burning trestle across the Ohoope River, near hear this 
afternoon. A.T. Lindsey, was killed when pinned beneath a freight after 
attempting to jump to safety.



H.T. Cochran, engineer, stuck to his post and was badly hurt when his engine 
plunged down a 20 foot embankment after going across the burning trestle. The 
train was running at such speed that the engine and several freight were able 
to get across the burning structure, but were derailed and plunged down the 
steep embankment into the burning woods below. One car went through the 
trestle. Six of these cars were completely destroyed by the flames. (Another 
account says when he jumped he was caught under a car load of seed)

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/washington/newspapers/trainacc3234nw.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/

File size: 1.6 Kb