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John Corbin
Train Hand
Biography
In February 1886, John Corbin was killed after he was knocked from the top of the train and crushed at the mouth of the tunnel.
Jonathan Cousins
Fireman
Biography
Jonathan Cousins was the fireman on Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad locomotive No. 9 on February 10, 1870, when its boiler suddenly exploded, killing him and the locomotive’s engineer.
He and another fireman “were found, bruised and bleeding, beneath the fragments of the wreck, and conveyed to the National Hotel, where the best of medical attention was rendered to alleviate their intense suffering, but all was in vain. …They were gathered in the cold embrace of death at a late hour that night.”
Cousins, a resident of Providence, Tennessee, left behind a wife and two children.
James Craig
Pattern Maker
Biography
James Craig joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad circa 1871.
Franklin Alexander Crawford
Conductor
James Crozier
Engineer
Biography
James Crozier joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad circa 1857.