The old Parchman convicts told me that when the "Yellow Dog Line" locomotive turned northwest, just out side of Drew, Mississippi, the headlamp swept across the cages. If the light hit you - something good was fixing to come your way about dawn.

Nowadays the tracks are gone, but you can still see where the Yellow Dog Line turned northwest.

One night a lady from the "world" got permission to come to our prayer meeting on the inside. She said that her son was almost killed in a car wreck out in the Delta somewhere about a month earlier. But some kind of a light shone down - just about the time the searchers were looking for where the kid had been thrown. And the light fell on her son. She said, they didn't ever find out where the light came from. A couple of the old convicts said: "That was the midnight special..." (Of course it hadn't run from Drew to Tutwiler in 40 years!) But that's what they said. Bonecrusher