Obituaries: R. T. McCraney, 1943, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: April 22, 1943 Winn Parish Enterprise

One Man Dead As Result of Wreck Near Winnfield

R. T. McCraney, colored, was instantly killed and four other Negroes, all of
Winnfield, were seriously injured in a truck collision which took place at the
L. & A. underpass on the Alexandria-Winnfield highway late Monday afternoon. 
The injured, Henry Turner, Willie Babers, Alfred Perkins, and Willie Smith,
were rushed to the North Louisiana Sanitarium in Shreveport immediately after
the wreck.

The three trucks involved in the wreck were owned by J. W. Kennedy, of
Winnfield, C. R. Andrews, of Clinton, and the Louisiana Machinery Company of
Monroe.

According to a report from _________________of Winnfield, the Kennedy truck
was hauling thirty Negro laborers from their job on the railroad near Tioga
when they came upon the Louisiana Tractor and Machinery Company truck that was
hung under the overpass because the 30 yard government ______ it was
transporting was too large for clearance.  The underpass is at the foot of a
hill on which the highway makes a sharp curve, and as Raymond Dubois, ______
driver of the Kennedy truck, pulled his vehicle out into the highway to pass
the parked truck, the C. R. Andrews vehicle, loaded with fertilizer, came
around the downgrade and rammed the Kennedy truck from the rear.  The Negroes
were thrown onto the highway and it is believed that the McCraney Negro was
run over by one of the trucks.

Henry G. Johnson, driver of the C. P. Andrews truck, had his hand badly
injured, but Raymond Dubois, the Kennedy truck driver, and Roy Erwin, driver
of the Louisiana Tractor and Machinery Company truck, were uninjured.