Massacre in Sugarland

Based on actual events many years ago.

Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash

Louisiana 1905

The steam-powered engine rumbled loudly as a young farmhand raked sugar cane from a plantation railcar onto the cane carrier feeder outside a sugar mill. The new machine, a back-saver called Walsh’s Rake, was the latest improvement on the sugar cane farms in Iberville Parish.