Seems pretty inaccesible to me going off this newspaper report at the time.......



Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center and other area emergency personnel practice periodically
handling mock disasters. Last night, it was the real thing, and from the looks of the activity at the hospital the
practice has paid off. Only thing, though, nobody had practiced removing 26 plane crash victims from a
swampy patch of woods out from Gillsburg, across a creek to waiting ambulances. It took some three hours or
more from the time the plane crashed to get the job done, but again, those whose jobs it is to do such things,
carried out their duties with precision and skill and as much speed as possible under difficult situations. Bob
Kirkfield, Enterprise-Journal advertising manager, and I arrived on the scene amid the rescue efforts. It was
hard enough getting across the 20-foot wide creek carrying a camera. It obviously would have been harder
carrying an injured person. We walked across a fallen tree. Some were fording the creek, a tributary of the
Amite River. Persons going to the plane had to be careful not to step on the injured and dead who had been
thrown or removed from the aircraft. At first it was thought the ambulances could go around another direction
to get closer to the plane and avoid having to carry the victims across the creek. Later the decision was made
to carry them across the stream. Two Civil Defense workers at the scene said , a sandbar was found
crossing the stream and rescuers were able to carry stretchers across it without wading the water,
however, they had to walk for more than a mile to get to the ambulances.

The Blue Revolution is evolving....