The Monroe News-Star - Marshall Sanford Killed by Train

Date: Dec. 1999
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>




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The News-Star
Tuesday, October 19, 1909
Page 8, Column 2

MARSHALL STANDFORD KILLED.
Struck by Train Near Calhoun Last Night.
Marshall Sanford, who lives five miles west of Calhoun, was run over by 
V. S. & P. passenger train No. 10, due here at 9:45 last night from the 
west. Sanford was in Monroe yesterday and was drinking more or less all 
day. He left here at 7:30 last night for his home and got off the train 
at Calhoun, he sat down on the ends of the cross ties and evidently went 
to sleep there. The accident happened just before 9 o'clock. His body 
was knocked to one side of the track and was badly bruised. Death 
resulted in a few minutes after he was struck. The wheels did not pass 
over his body.
Sanford was accompanied by his nephew, Clay Sanford who is said to have 
been asleep near the track when the accident occurred. Sanford was 
about 45 years old.

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