Mr. Lanham's Diary: Dec. 24, 1926
Deadly train crash puts a damper on Christmas Eve
“Christmas happiness had a damper closed upon it this morning by the news of the wreck at Rockmart last night,” Mr. Lanham wrote in his diary, “in which twenty-five or more lost their lives.” Rockmart is a nearby town to Rome, where Anne’s family lives.
The wreck, a head-on collission between the Royal Palm and Ponce de Leon passenger trains during a dri…
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