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Medina, ND Circus Train In Collision, June 1908

Submitted by Stu Beitler

CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED.

Twenty-four Fine Horses Killed for GOLMAR Bros.

Bismarch, N. D., June 23. -- GOLMAR Bros. circus lost twenty-four draft horses, a part of its train was destroyed and it was delayed twelve hours in reaching this city, by a head-on collision at Medina at daylight Sunday. A light engine running twenty-five miles an hour collided with the circus train going at thirty miles an hour. One man was injured.
The circus train reached here at 2 p.m. The loss was several thousand dollars.

Waterloo Daily Courier Iowa 1908-06-23

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