Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — FAST TRAIN KILLS SOLDIERS. [ARTICLE]

FAST TRAIN KILLS SOLDIERS.

Wholesale Slaughter of Black I ruin lines in Georgia. A fatal accident occurred on the Southern Railway at Silver Creek, Ga., early Tuesday morning. While running at a high rate of speed Engineer Waters suddenly discovered a crowd of negro soldiers walking on tlie track, but before he could check his train it had struck the soldiers. Waters stopped liis train and found that at least three of the men bad been killed, but tile negroes swarmed about him and talked so strongly of lynching him that he hastily pulled out for Chattanooga. Parts of the remains of the victims were found hanging to the locomotive when it arrived there. The soldiers wore members of the Seventh Immune regiment, who were en route from Lexington to Macon.