(Source: Aiken Standard, January 6, 2020)
AIKEN, S.C. — The nine lives lost is the first thing Aiken County Sheriff Michael Hunt thinks of when he remembers the deadly train derailment in Graniteville, which happened in the early morning 15 years ago today. At 2:39 a.m. on Jan. 6, 2005, a Norfolk Southern two-engine, 42-car train veered onto a spur line and slammed into a locomotive tied down on a side track, derailing 14 cars in the heart of Graniteville just outside one of the Avondale Mills textile plants. Among those killed was BLET locomotive engineer Christopher Seeling, age 28, who was a member of Division 85 in Columbia, S.C.
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