The Camp Creek train wreck was a railroad disaster that took place on 23 June 1900 just outside McDonough, Georgia.

The northbound Southern Railway train hit a washout 1.5 miles north of the town, plunging 60 feet into the swollen creek below before bursting into flames, killing 35 of the 45 aboard the train.

7 with two coaches and a Pullman sleeper car attached, departed Macon, Georgia, at 7:10 pm with railroad engineer J.T.

However, by no small miracle for those on board, the train from Columbus did not arrive on time, and No.

He received orders to leave McDonough and head north at around 9:45 pm.

The trestle's brick supports had been washed away by the raging waters of the creek, which had been fed by more than two weeks of continuous rain.

Shortly after hitting the water, the locomotive burst into flames, followed by the two coaches.

The flagman, J.J. Quinlan, was the first of the survivors to successfully scale the muddy embankment, and quickly procured a length of rope that was then used to save two women from Boston.

The entire male population of McDonough was quickly mobilized shortly after Quinlan delivered the news of the wreck.

Word was sent out to Atlanta of the crash, and a train with doctors and ministers arrived the next morning.

Many of the dead were disfiguringly crushed and charred, and identification was dependent on the documents in their pockets.

D. C. HIGHTOWER, Stockbridge, Ga. W. W. SPARK, Macon, Ga. ELDER HENSON, traveling man, believed to be of Florida.