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Passenger Train Wrecks Near McDonough With Mass Fatalities
A Macon branch passenger train derailed into a washout near McDonough Georgia after a cloudburst. The wreck caught fire and the Pullman sleeper survived while all other cars burned. Thirty five people killed with many burned or crushed. Initial lists name conductors engineers and passengers from Atlanta Macon and Stockbridge among the dead. The disaster follows days of heavy rains causing washouts and floods across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Macon
Southern Railway
McDonough
William A. Barclay
J. E. Wood
J. H. Hunnicut
J. T. Sullivan
W. Bennett
F. Made
W. J. Pate
Baliiggt
H. R. Cressman
Pullman
G. W. Flournoy
D. ©. Hightower
Stockbridge
W. W. Spark
Elder Henson
J. R. Trueside
Nashville
Tenn
Ellis
Bridgeman
D. Y. Griffith
J. H. Rhodes
John Brantley
Will Green
W. L. Morrisette
W. R. Lawrence
el. Byrd
Robert Spencer
M ‘Donough
Columbus
Camp Creek
Comulgee
Flagman Quinlan
W. A Barclay
Georgia, Midland and
Gulf Road