The Monroe News-Star - Henry Johnson Struck by Train

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




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The Monroe News-Star
Thursday, July 7, 1910
Page 1, Column 5

Negro Killed By Fast Train
Lake Charles, July 7.-Henry Johnson, a 40 year-old negro residing near the 
coal chutes, was struck and instantly killed by west bound Southern Pacific 
passenger train No. 9 yesterday evening, a few hundred yards from the water 
tank.  Johnson was walking along the track with a sack of melons over his 
shoulder and did not hear the train approaching. When picked up he was not 
bruised much, but his neck was broken. He leaves a wife and several children.

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