Cooter

Back yonder in the 40's and 50's I had this kinfold name of Cooter (his nickname) what drove locomotives for the Illinois Central railroad. He had been on trains since he were a young boy back in the first part of the 20th century. And he never had had no troubles until around 1953. He were coming south through a town north of his home when a deaf man walked out in front of the train and were killed. Then a few months later one night he were coming around a curve close to Amite, La. and a car were stalled on the track. Several peoples was killed. Cooter were hurt by all this but he kept on going. But within the year a school bus had its brakes to fail and come down and run into the side of the train. Nobody were killed but one child had to have a limb taken off. Cooter were wounded real bad by this one. He would sit around and cry and blamed hisself even though it warn't nothing he could have done about none of these accidents. He died before the year were out. God bless Cooter.