Historical Marker
Buckatunna
Buckatunna, Wayne County · Mississippi
Erected 1952
A robbery here was the work of Rube Burrow, who stopped a Mobile and Ohio express train near Buckatunna in September 1889. Pinkerton detectives chased him for two days across the Raccoon Mountains in Blount County, Alabama, and the posse turned back after two trackers, William Penn Woodard and Harry Annerton, were killed and three others seriously wounded. His accomplice Rube Smith was sentenced to ten years in the Mississippi Penitentiary for the Buckatunna robbery, and later to life in an Ohio prison for mail robbery.
Where it stands
31.53980, -88.52720 · Directions
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