The Ouachita Telegraph - Charlie Brown Killed by Train

Date: Oct 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>


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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, June 4, 1887
Page 2, Column 6

DE SOTO.
On last Saturday night the 8 o’clock passenger train ran over and killed one
Charlie Brown.  The inquest revealed that the said Charlie Brown came to his
death while intoxicated and asleep on the track and was run over by the
train.  Charlie was a colored man and was drinking during the evening and
demonstrated the fact clearly in the presence of many of our citizens. –
Robeline Reporter.

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