From Days Gone By Sept. 12,1925

 September 12,1925.

    State Highway surveyors started surveying the Bee-Line from the city to the Oconee and will likely take a month to complete. Johnson, Washington and Wilkinson put up the required funds for this survey. It will move over the Oconee to Irwinton and connect with the already established highway to Macon.

    The Union Gin caught fire and spread rapidly to the seed house. The cotton warehouse was saved by the thick brick wall that halted the flames enough for the firemen to put it out. Mr. Edd Jordan, manager and owner of the property said the wall saved the warehouse. Ten carloads of seed were lost in the fire.

    While the Gin fire raged another tragedy occurred when the W. & T.  passenger train No. 3 left Wrightsville on time enroute to Dublin and  was running about 30 mph. In order to make the grade ahead fireman Asa T. Lindsey was in the tender fixing the fire. The engineer, Arthur T. Cochran, 23 year veteran with the W. & T. said when he looked around the curve saw the Idylwild trestle on fire knew a wreck was enevitable. He applied the brakes and the engine rode the rails over the burning section, swooped down and up, bent to the right and fell on its left side down and away from a 10 foot embankment out into the swamp. Two cars of seed, one car of merchandise, the tender, 2 coal cars and the engine left the tracks and the fire rapidly spread to the coal.

    As hundreds came from the city Conductor John Brooks freed the remaining cars and were pushed back down the track out of harm's way.

W. & T. President, Chas. Molony was aboard the fatal train and he and the passengers were unhurt. However in a frantic search for Lindsey he was found buried under a carload of seed and was only discovered by one leg sticking out. This began frantic work to get his body out before it could be burned up. As other's fought the fire Lindsey's badly mangled body was dug out of the wreckage. 

    It seems the woods were on fire which caused the trestle to catch fire. The Sandersville railroad sent an engine to pull the passenger cars to a side track and a wrecker came from Macon to clear the wreckage so the tracks could be repaired. Mr. Lindsey was carried to Sandersville under his wife's direction. They had two daughters 14 and 6. He was buried at Mt. Moriah church. This was the worst train wreck in the railroads history up to that time.

    Miss Margaret Kent riding with Bernard Roberts of Ennis in a Hudson Coach met an auto about 3 miles up Tennille Rd and swerved to miss the auto ran into a ditch at 50 mph and turned belly up. Mrs. Kent broke her collar bone and Roberts brusied. Mr. Ben Roy Spell while coming from Kite crossing Cedar bridge hit a hole and his Ford Touring car ran off in the swamp. He was only bruised.

    Sweethearts for years, the happy marriage of Miss Susie Mae Outlaw and Mr. Bob Lord culminated in South Carolina. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Frank Outlaw. He is a son of Mr. F. C. Lord.