Who was Simeon T Webb? He was Johnathan Luther “Casey” Jones’s fireman when the Cannonball Expressed crashed on April 30, 1900 in Vaughan, Miss. He survived. His description of what happened is what the song is based upon.
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Who was Simeon T Webb? He was Johnathan Luther “Casey” Jones’s fireman when the Cannonball Expressed crashed on April 30, 1900 in Vaughan, Miss. He survived. His description of what happened is what the song is based upon.