Fairview, Pennsylvania
Train Wreck
January 20, 1907
Fallen Pole Wrecks Train.
Six Persons in Overturned Passenger Coaches Are
Injured.
Erie, Pa., Jan. 20 – An overturned telegraph
pole hurled across the Nickel Plate tracks by
the heavy gale wrecked a west bound passenger
train on the Nickel Plate Railroad at Fairview,
near here, to-day. Six persons were injured.
They are Mrs. C.H.
LEGGETT, 1535 Payne avenue,
Cleveland, Ohio, shoulder sprained;
E.J. BENDER,
Wellington, Ohio, scalp wounds;
Mrs. E.J. BENDER,
seriously bruised and cut; infant daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. BENDER, slightly
injured; Mr. MINSKY,
of Brooklyn, en route to Chicago,
severe scalp wounds;
Mrs. COUSINS, Conneaut, bruises.
Traffic has been seriously delayed.
The Washington Post, Washington, DC 21 Jan
1907
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