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EDUCATIONAL PLANNING— DarreII Pippin (right),
incoming president of Butts County Association of
Educators, confers with Bill Scott, president of the 36,000
member Georgia Association of Educators, during the May
19-21 Leadership Development Conference of the GAE in
Atlanta. Leaders of some 200 GAE affiliates discussed
methods for developing dynamic educational programs in
their school systems during the annual conference.
A Forgotten Hero - The
Camp Creek Wreck Recalled
(Editor’s Note: This ac
count of the Camp Creek
train wreck near McDo
nough, which happened 77
years ago, was written by
Harry Stillwell Edwards of
The Atlanta Journal and
appeared in the Progress-
Argus on May 27, 1927.)
“It was a stormy evening
in June, 1900. The Atlanta
bound express out of Macon
was rushing on its way over a
water-soaked terrain. The
Ocmulgee was far out of its
banks, and under every
trestle red flood waters
surged to swell its volume.
At McDonough the train
found a southbound freight.
The two crews mingled for a
minute in consultation. The
Camp Creek trestle? Yes,
perfectly safe; the freight
had just come over it. Camp
Creek was flooding the fields,
climbing the railroad em
bankment, and roaring under
the trestle, but everything
was all right.
Clang of bells; a movement
of lights; and the express
swept onward down grade to
Camp Creek, two miles
away, the speed increasing
every rod. Then, suddenly,
brakes; a groaning of
machinery; a rending, tear
ing , thundering crash.
The train was down in the
muddy waters, shivered and
flaming. A few heart-render
ing cries; then silence. The
waters flowed over the ruins.
Of the 44 human beings on
the train, 38 were dead. Six,
who were in the sleeper,
bleeding and broken, sur
vived. The car stood on end,
half submerged.
Of the six in the sleeper,
two were women, one a
Negro porter, two drum
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mers, and Johnnie Quinlan,
the flagman. All were
suffering from wounds, con
fused in the darkness, and
facing death from the fast
rising waters.
But Johnny Quinlan,
hurled the full length of the
car, pinioned by the feet,
with the waters rising until
they touched his chin, knew
of another danger. A fast
freight was following the
express, and even then was
due at McDonough. The lives
of the survivors behind him,
the lives of the freight crew,
depended on him. He was
flagman and it was his duty
to stop that train.
He was little more than a
boy but he was Irish from
crown to sole. And you know
what the Irish are in the hour
of danger. The world knows.
Pin your faith to them. They
fear no foe; fail no friend;
shirk no duty.
Johnny did not fail.
Gasping and struggling in the
darkness, three ribs broken,
face smashed, back
wrenched and feet lifeless,
his thought was of that
oncoming train, the scream
ing women behind him, and
36 human beings ahead. His
duty was to these; to society;
to Ireland; and to all the
gallant souls of his race who
preceded him.
Suddenly he was free, and
dragging himself through the
shattered roof of the sleeper.
The train ahead was gone
under; the sleeper roof led
upward. Along this he
crawled in physical agony.
At the end he lowered himself
to the platform, where the
women and three men were
clinging, filled his pockets
with torpedoes, wrenched off
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, CEOKCIA THURSDAY, MAY 26. 1977
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the red light, and sought a
way out.
One bridge timber, half
submerged, was in reach,
and on this he crawled to the
steep, slippery bank over
which, forty feet up, the bent
rails hung. Around him the
waters roared. A passenger,
following, slipped and was
swept away, but Quinlan
toiled on, with bare hands
digging footholds. The lan
tern encumbered him; he
dropped it. And then,
exhausted but dauntless, he
dragged himself over the
brink and faced McDonough,
two miles away.
It was here that a coward
soul would have failed.
Johnnie Quinlan was safe. He
need but throw himself down
by the roadside and ease his
agony, but as I have said,
Johnnie was all Irish and the
Irish are not built that way.
His lantern gone, he must
meet that train far enough
ahead to stop it before it
reached the danger zone;
and that meant far indeed,
for the freight was heavy, the
grade was downward and the
rails wet and slippery. So,
half running, half dragging
his bruised limbs, he plunged
out into the night for his two
miles struggle with destiny.
And, as he went, fearing for
his strength and endurance,
he placed his torpedoes in
tripples, along the rail. The
swelling muscles of his
smashed face were fast
closing his eyes. He set them
while he could see the rails.
Quinlan does not know how
he covered those two miles.
He remembers only the pain,
the bitter, biting agony of it.
Be we, whose business
brought us into that tragedy,
know that he met the delayed
freight as it rolled into
McDonough; that its engine
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SPECIAL OLYMPICS - These three Henderson Elementary students participated in
the state Special Olympics in Atlanta May 20-21 and were awarded five gold medals, three
4th place ribbons and one sth place ribbon. They are (1-r) Emma Walker, Linda’Sims,
Carol Ann Jackson and their teacher, Carol Thomas, who accompanied them to Atlanta
for the meet. Photo by Dale Whiten.
Summertime Is
The Time For
Ice Cream
Summertime is just around
the bend and its time to crank
up your ice cream maker.
Here are some helpful hints
for making your own ice
cream to keep in mind.
Weigh and-or measure salt
and ice. For freezing one
gallon ice cream, you will use
about three to four cups rock
salt to 20 pounds of ice. (Ice
cream hardened in the food
freezer will take less ice and
salt.
Make sure your ice is
chopped finely; it will melt
more evenly and provide
uniform cold. Otherwise ice
cream is likely to turn out
grainy, icy, or mushy.
The salt used in making
homemade ice cream is rock
salt. It is a coarse salt and
should be used instead of
regular table salt.
Freezing should not be too
slow or too fast. A greater
amount of salt will melt the
ice faster causing the ice
cream to freeze faster. A too
rapid.freezing time does not
allow for sufficient agitation
was detached, and with it a
crew rescued the living in the
Camp Creek wreck.
And that one year and five
days later the doctors turned
Johnnie Quinlan loose again,
scarred but well.
A few days ago the papers
in Macon told of the
conviction of Johnnie Quin
lan on a charge of illicit
transactions in liquor. The
sentence was severe. Read
ing the report many smug
souls rejoiced in the “vindi
cation” of society.
Well, the court did say
Johnnie was quilty. But there
were some who looked back
into that fateful night of 27
years ago and saw a boy out
in no man’s land, wounded
and alone, upholding the
traditions of the South and of
old Ireland, with the sublime
courage and devotion of a
Gordon, a Lee, a Jackson.
I call him in this record, a
forgotten hero. Only society
has forgotten. Those who
love him for the manhood
behind his scars, have not
forgotten.”
Report From
Indian Springs
By Mrs. Clyde Hoard
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Holloway
spent Sunday in Athens with
Mrs. Doyle Faulkner.
Guests of Mrs. Margaret
Greer and Stan Hogan on
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
Lamar Hogan and Clay of
Dublin, Mrs. Jean Goetz and
Meta of Warner Robins, Mr.
and Mrs. Bobby Kinard of
Covington, Mr. and Mrs.
Buster Duke, Lynne and Al,
and Mr. Kyle McMichael, all
of Jackson.
Mrs. Marvin Kimbell, Mr.
and Mrs. Don Washington
and daughter of Carrollton
visited Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Hoard.
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Crane
had as their guests Sunday
Mr. Bozo Crane of Macon,
Mr. Russell Crane of
Atlanta, Steve and Scott
Fletcher of Locust Grove.
Miss Winnie Taylor attend
ed the Columbus-Macon
baseball game in Macon on
Saturday.
Keith, Amy and Alan Wil
liams of Jackson spent the
weekend with their grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs.
and produces a coarse
texture. An extended period
of freezing causes a spongy
buttery texture. Ice cream
should be formed in approxi
mately 20-30 minutes.
To harden ice cream
remove top and carefully
remove the dasher. Scrape
sides and press ice cream
into can. Cover. Repack with
salt and ice in a ratio of 1
cup salt to 4 cups crushed ice.
Let stand for 2-3 hours. Drain
brine often. Ice cream can be
hardened in the family
freezer.
It is best to make the ice
cream mixture the night
before so it has plenty of time
to chill.
Protect all working sur
faces with newspaper. Salt is
corrosive. Be careful not to
kill valuable backyard grass
when making ice cream
outdoors in the good old
summertime.
Charlie Williams. Mr. and
Mrs. Homer Williams visited
Mrs. Williams sister in
Greenville, S. C.
Barrett Hoard spent the
weekend with his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Hoard. Mr. and Mrs. Danny
Hoard spent a few days at
Daytona Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. Skeeter
Grant and Adam were dinner
guests Saturday night of Mr.
and Mrs. Woodrow Turner in
Tabernacle Christian Academy
U. S. Highway 41 One Mile North
Barnesville, Ga.
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Jackson.
Mrs. R. L. Holloway and
Mr. and Mrs. James Darden
of Forsyth visited Thursday
with Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Holloway.
Friends of Mr. Dawson
Stallworth, brother of Miss
Blannie Stallworth, will be
interested to know he is a
patient in a South Carolina
hospital.
Mr. A. O. Allen continues
quite ill at Georgia Baptist
Hospital in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. Asa Maddox
joined Mr. and Mrs. Gibson
Youmans of Donalsonville
for a week’s vacation in
Florida, returning home
Sunday.
Gay McMichael played in
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May 27-29
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the golf tournament Satur
day and Sunday at the
Milledgeville Country Club.
Ted McMichael and Miss
Debbie Chapman of Georgia
College were Sunday guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
McMichael.