Ottawa, Kansas
Train Wreck
January 14, 1912
Three Die in Double Wreck.
Ottawa Kan Jan 15 – A freight train on the
Missouri Pacific railway crashed through a
trestle twenty miles west of here at 11:30
o’clock Sunday night. Ten minutes later another
freight train plunged through the same trestle.
The wreckage caught fire.
Three persons are known to be dead. They are
Engineer PACKEE,
of the first train,
Engineer SNYDER, of the second train
and LOUIS BLAINE
a stockman of Bushing Kan.
The Daily Review, Decatur, IL 15 Jan 1912
Transcribed by Rosemarie Thank you,
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