Newspaper Article, Donaldsonville Chief, May 1, 1886
Submitted by:  Carolyn Kitzmann Bonnin September 2003

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Col . Eugene Tisdale, an old attaché of the New Orleans 
press, whose abilities as a poet and journalist were well 
known to a large circle of friends and admirers, met with 
a terrible accident last Monday evening, which has resulted 
in his death.  He was crossing the track of the Morgan 
railroad at the head of St. Ann street, when a switch engine 
knocked him down and ran over his left leg, necessitating the 
amputation of that limb.  The Colonel bore the operative bravely, 
but the after effects were more than his system could withstand 
and he has succumbed to the inevitable and yielded up his spirit 
to its Maker.  At the time of his death, Col. Tisdale was river 
reporter of the New Orleans Chronicle, and his loss will be keenly 
felt by the managers of that paper as well as his friends and 
colleagues of the press in general.