The Monroe News-Star - George Johnson Killed by Train

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




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The Monroe News-Star
Thursday, December 1, 1910
Page 8, Column 1

Old Negro Killed.
George Johnson, the old negro whose home was nearly destroyed by fire 
Tuesday night and who was dragged from the burning building just in time to 
save his life, was run down and killed by a work engine in the Iron Mountain 
yards last night. The accident happened just after Engineer Van Dyke was 
hurt. The old negro was eighty years old and it is thought his mind was 
affected by his experience of the night before when he lost everything in 
the fire. He was in destitute circumstances before the fire. He stepped on 
the track directly in front of the moving work train and there was no chance 
to prevent the accident. It happened near the engine where the engineer was 
injured. Coroner Surghnor viewed the remains this morning and certified to 
the facts in the case.

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