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Commerce, TX Train Wreck, Apr 1931

Posted July 6th, 2008 by Linda Horton

5 Killed When Train Hits Auto

Commerce, Texas, April 27. (AP)---Five persons were killed today when a Cotton Belt passenger train struck an automobile at Granby, a small community near here.

The dead:

CLYDE JACKSON, about 32.

BILL JACKSON, 5.

GAFFORD JACKSON, 12.

PRESTON BEGGS, 18.

ALLIE HUTCHINSON, 26.

The Jackson children were sons of Clyde Jackson and the other two victims also were relatives.

Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, NY 27 Apr 1931
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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