Daily Journal, Tennessee
14 September 1893
(Viewed online at GenealogyBank.)
SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN GEORGIA
The Fireman Killed and the Engineer Wounded
COLUMBUS, Ga., Sept 13 -- A serious accident occurred a mile and a half west of Troy, on the M. & G. railroad, this afternoon at four o'clock, to a freight train bound from Columbus to Seawright. The track is on a dead level at this point and the train was going at the usual speed when the engine jumped the track and partly turned over, carrying four cars with it. The fireman, George Wright, was caught under the engine and killed, being terribly crushed. Engineer John Ledbetter was seriously injured about the back. The cars were badly damaged. A wrecking train was sent out from here at 6 p.m., and it is supposed the track will be cleared by to-morrow for the passage of other trains. The impression is that an obstruction was placed on the tracks, as several attempts lately have been made to wreck a train on the Troy division.
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