The Ouachita Telegraph - Lazarus Brown Killed by Train Date: Oct 2000 Submitted by: Lora Peppers ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, December 17, 1887 Page 3, Column 1 A deaf and dumb man named Lazarus Brown was run over and killed by the eastbound passenger train yesterday morning just beyond Young’s bayou. Brown was approaching the train and the engineer naturally supposed he would get off the track until it was too late to check the engine. Brown had been knocked off the track by passing trains once or twice before and the idea suggests itself that he courted death on the rail. # # #