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Casey Jones

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Engineer
Died
Apr 30, 1900
Zodiac
Pisces
Born in
Tennessee
About
Railroad engineer for the Illinois Central Railroad who was killed when his passenger train, the Cannonball Express, crashed into a stalled freight train on a rainy night in Vaughan, Mississippi. His efforts to stay on and slow the doomed train, saving the lives of many on board, have made him a folk hero.
Family
He had been married to Janie Brady for fourteen years at the time of his death. They had three children together.

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