Littlewoods, Louisiana
Train Wreck
November 18, 1908
Great Northern Flyer Kills Eight
Near New Orleans
New Orleans.-It was a heavy price in human
life that paid for the errors of railroad
trainmen when a Great Northern express crashed
into the rear of a New Orleans & Northeastern
local train at Littlewoods station a fishing and
hunting camp on Lake Ponchartrain, 12 miles from
New Orleans.
Eight dead, many more injured, some of them
fatally, is the record of the wreck, which was
attended by unusually gruesome scenes in the
foggy swamps of the lake shore. The wreck caught
fire and only the heroic work of the surviving
passengers prevented the cremation of those
pinned in the debris.
The dead- C. B. LOWREY,
of Lexington, Ky.;
PROF. C.E. ROOS, New Orleans
university; WILLIAM A.
MARTIN of Slidell, La.;
WILLIAM ATTAWAY, 3 yrs. old, Slidell,
La.; ORA TRAVIS
Hattiesburg, Miss.;
J. H. SHOWS, Morriston, Miss.;
C. A. CRAWFORD,
Seminary, Miss.;
AUGUSTUS NEITKAMPF Heal River,
Miss.
The Indiana Democrat, Indiana, PA 18 Nov
1908
Transcribed by
Sandra Ries.
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