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I found this article in the book, "Polk County Folks", There are many Peebles in Polk County, Livingston, Texas.
13 August 1908 - The most horrible and death sickening scene the writer wver witnessed was the wreck that occurred on the tram road of the Livingston Lumber Company, four 1/2 miles from town, last Friday, in which five men lost their lives.
The Dead:
Finis Peebles(white) clerk in commisary
Fayette Rogers(colored) teamster
Watson Scot(colored) engineer
Henry Young(colored)brakeman
Brach Hickman(white) sawyer
The collision happened about 12:45 PM. The train engine was coming into the mill pulling 8 cars of logs. As the train was running down a hihll at a rate of 50 miles an hour, the engine struck a cow, and there being no pilot on the engine, the train was derailed, and Plunged into a bridge that was on a head a distance of about 100 feet, it was then that the awful catastrophe came.
E.B. Rice found Finis Peebles who was struggling in the cab of the engine while the scalding water was pouring in upon him. He then pulled Hickman out under the debris. He said it was in possible to rescue Rogers, and Scott, who were wedged and Jammed under the cab of the engine. He listened to their pleadings for help as the hot water was pouring in on them from the engine, but it was impossible to rescue them from the awful scene.
Finis Peebles managed to walk one half mile to the home of his Aunt Mrs. Bettie Peebles and lived about three hours....Hickman lived till about saturday....This was the worst wreck that has ever happened in East Texas and it is a miracle that anyone escaped with their lives.
Finis Peebles was 21 years old, was a member of Baptist church and belonged to the woodman of the World and Mistic Cycle....In the past 6 years there have gone before him of his immediate family, a grandfather, father, two brothers, and two sisters. He is only survived of his family, by a grandmother, mother, brother, and sister...sat. morning he was carried to Leggett and from there to the Oates cemetery where he was buried by the W.O.W. in the presence of a large crowd.
The August 20, 1908 issue of the Enterprise, contained a long poem in memory of Finis Peebles, written by a local poet, Anna Kirkpatrick Fain, It contains no additional genealogical or biographical information but is mentioned here for those who are interested.
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