Extracted from The Colfax Chronicle (Colfax, LA)
Saturday, January 18, 1913

Oliver Wallace Dies of His Injuries.

Monday night Miss Ida Wallace received a telephone message from Winnfield that her brother, Oliver K. Wallace, conductor on the work train of the Tremont and Gulf railroad, had been brought home to have his leg amputated. She left for Winnfield by the 10 o'clock train that night. Mr. Wallace was making a coupling of the cars at Menefee Junction, and slipped and fell, the cars passing over his right leg, crushing the bones from below the knee and almost to the hip, and he died from his injuries on Tuesday.