06 Jan 1873
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Newspaper
Atlanta Weekly Sun
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1873
Page
3
Reprint from the Daily Sun column covering Kentucky Virginia and Florida notes. It reports cholera losses at Jes Saffell distillery near Frankfort and various local events, church matters, and regional political updates including a Georgia senatorial question and New Year losses in a Atlanta household.
A Southern Evangelist journal in Atlanta is welcomed for its essays and aims while reflections criticize a Georgia political figure Mr Stephens over alleged disabilities and predictions. The Macon and Western railroad disaster is blamed on an asleep engineer with disputed fault and safety failures.
At New Year’s dawn a head-on wreck near Bear Creek, Georgia, killed seven negroes on the up train and injured several on the down train. Engineer Alexander Johnson, asleep at Bear Creek, woke too late to stop. both engines and cars were wrecked. The disaster damaged the line, with costs pegged around one hundred fifty thousand dollars, bodies transported to Griffin, and Patti of the Strakosch troupe aiding the injured.
Christmas sleet and ice gave way to a blaze that consumed a two story brick business house owned by Col. John W. Gray. Prompt citizen efforts saved the town from wider damage as the roof fell in within twenty minutes. Gray suffered about ten thousand dollars in losses. insurance was two thousand five hundred. He was praised for energy and resilience in rebuilding.
Fragmentary Rome newspaper excerpts report a homicide in Lumberton with a man killing another after threats, a Savannah river robbery on the Katie steamer, a deadly Mobley McMeekin shooting, church and political notes, a railroad accident in South Carolina, and various local incidents including a small fire, debt clearance at a Savannah church, and census figures on Irish Protestants and Catholics.
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