<p>About 85 hogs were killed when a two-level tractor-trailer carrying 43,000 pounds of porkers wrecked on a northeast Georgia highway.</p><p>Another 15 of the 250-pound hogs that survived the accident Monday evening on Ga. 77 died from heat stress by Tuesday afternoon, said Jack Williford, the uncle of hog owner Mike Yeargin.</p><p>"That would have put a lot of meat on somebody's table," Williford told the Anderson (S.C.) Independent Mail.</p><p>"When I got there, I got out and heard hogs squealing," Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland said. "They were hot and panting like dogs. We got fans and water hoses on them. That saved at least half" of the trailer's load of about 170 hogs.</p><p>The Georgia State Patrol said driver Danny Puckett, 38, lost control in a curve and overturned en route to an Alabama processing plant.</p><p>Cleveland said the hogs that were killed were buried near the scene, and the others were taken to a nearby farm.</p><p>Williford said a representative of the Hart County Humane Society supervised the burial, remaining at the scene until almost 3 a.m. Tuesday. He said the driver apparently lost control when the load of hogs shifted.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cd9b3c)</p>
