Dallas Co., TX -  Robert Johnson

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Dallas Morning News 22 Oct 1885 page 3

A FRIGHTFUL DEATH

A Heroic Effort that Resulted in the Loss of Two Lives

Special to the News

CENTREVILLE, Miss., Oct. 21 - - Three miles from this place to-day, Robert
Johnson, colored, noticed a little colored girl playing on the railroad track.
At the same moment he heard the rumble of an approaching train and, turning
around saw the engine turning a curve only a few yards away. Johnson made a
rush for the child, and just as he gathered it up in his arms the engine
struck them, mangling both fearfully. Death was instaneous.

Title: A Frightful Death

Date: 1885-10-22

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