“CASEY JONES” TRAIN SMASH
Last Survivor Dead (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW ORLEANS, November 12. The last known survivor of the famous train wreck immortalised in the song “Casey Jones” died in New Orleans yesterday, aged 82. He was William Crittenden, a young railway messenger at the •time that Jones’ “Cannonball Express” crashed in Missouri in 1900. Legend, and the song, had it that driver Jones stayed with his train to the end tn’ing to stop it, after a crash was inevitable and he had told his fireman to jump. Crittenden told the story many times, relating how he saw Jones’ body carried from the train after the crash. He remained working on the Illinois Central Railway for 50 years.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29053, 16 November 1959, Page 13
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