De Soto County, Florida Newspaper Clippings and Data

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W H Mallard, an engineer on the A.C.I., was instantly killed and the fireman William Maxwell colored was seriously injured by their engine colliding with a passenger train which was standing on the main line at Newberry Friday. Mallard was running his engine into the station to make up his train There was a heavy fog and he crashed into the passenger train without seeing it. [The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.), June 07, 1906. Submitted by K. Torp]

Captain John Miller who, in the auxiliary yacht Tarpon, went out last week to search for traces of the schooner Vandalia, captain W.J. Fogarty, which sailed from Key West for Tampa over a month ago has returned, having found the Vandilla, bottom up, five miles off Cape Manshoal, 200 miles south of Tampa. No traces of Captain Fogarty or his crew of four men were found. It is believed all were drowned. [The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.), June 07, 1906. K. Torp]

GOOD PLACE TO AVOID - Christmas morning about 1 o'clock, John Haygood, a young white man, was shot and killed in W. H. Sparr's saloon, at Arcadia, Fla., by Miles Ward, a policeman. There was a crowd in the saloon carousing, and Ward, who was drinking himself, attempted to put them out. A fight ensured, the lights were turned out, and Ward fired four times, John Haygood, who was on looking and not drinking was shot three times, twice through the head and once through the arm. Ward's fourth bullet wounded C. Sermons in the arm. Ward fled and posses are in pursuit. If he is caught he will be lynched, as Haygood was a popular young man, and his murder by a drunken policeman has aroused much indignation.

From Hamilton News Press - Marion County, AL - Jan 2, 1895

Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney

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