Gwinnett County, GA Travel News Stories

SIX HURT IN WRECK.

Seabord Passenger Train Collides Near Lilburn.
White Engineer Bruisded and Five Negroes Injured When Passenger Hits Work-Train.

Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2.--Six persons were injured today when the Seaboard Air Line's passenger train, No. 41, collided headon with a construction train at Lilburn, twenty-four miles east of Atlanta. The injured: C. S. Jones, passenger engineer; Abbeville, S. C., bruised; Steve McKnight; negro fireman, Abbeville, leg broken; B. S. Williams, Pensacola, Fla., collarbone broken; Alice S. Carter, colored, Tuskegee, slight; Sarah Bailey, Tuskegee; Lula Hill, colored, Atlanta.

Both engines were demolished, but another locomotive pulled No. 41 into Atlanta and ambulances met it here, taking the injured to hospitals. The passenger train was an hour late and was to pass the construction train at Lilburn, but crashed into it just as it was taking the siding.  [Macon Weekly Telegraph, September 3, 1911 - submitted by C. Anthony] 

 
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