Obituaries: Frank Gaines, 1939, Winn Parish, LA
Submitter: Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
Source: Winnfield News-American 
Date: September 22, 1939
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F. Gaines, Negro, Is Fatally Injured When Car Hits Hog

Another Negro, "Preacher" Lewis, Also Injured Wednesday Night

Frank Gaines, negro, was fatally injured and another negro, "Preacher" Lewis,
received minor abrasions and bruises when the car in which they were 
returning to town hit at hog and turned over several times, landing in a
barpit near Sonnett Creek on the Winnfield-Natchitoches highway Wednesday
night about nine thirty o'clock.

The two negroes were, according to best obtainable information, traveling at a
rapid rate of speed when they hit a good size hog.  In some way the hog was
caught underneath the car and was dragged 103 steps down the road before
dislodging and causing the old type car to reel to the left and leave the road
turning over several times down an embankment, landing in the barpit nearby.

The Gaines negro succeeded in freeing himself and climbed from the water
before dying to the opposite bank where he was found later with a broken neck.

It was stated that the two negroes had borrowed the car from another negro to
go to Clarence.