Newspapers: Wreck Survivors, Franklin Parish, LA, Submitted by: Glenda Warner Boyd ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ------------------------------------------------------- The Franklin Sun Winnsboro, LA September 30, 1943 Submitted June 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd Wreck Survivors Are Improving Hiram B. Waller, 10 years of age, one of two survivors of an auto- train collision Friday, Setember 17, near Forest Hill, was reported improving today at the Winnsboro sanitarium. Young Waller sustained fractures of both legs and other injuries. Leamon Carroll, 17, the second survivor, was reported much better at a Pineville sanitarium where he was taken after the collision which, resulted in the death of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Edward Townsend; his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Waller (parents of the Waller youth), and 10-year-old sister, Billie Cleo Townsend. Mr. and Mrs. Townsend and their daughter, Mrs. Waller, were killed instantly when the car crashed into a locomotive of the Red River and Gulf railroad, adjacent to a portion of the Camp Claiborne military reservation. Mr. Waller died a few hours later at a Camp Claiborne hospital where the injured were taken after the wreck. Later, the Waller boy was transferred to Winnsboro and the Carroll youth to Pineville. Joint open-air funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon, September 21, in the Central cemetery near Wisner. All were residents of Gilbert. ------------------------------------------------------