Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Railroad Accident

AURORA, Ill. May. 17. – A freight train from Chicago ran into a hand car to-day, about four miles east of here, stopping the train, which in turn was run into by a second freight train from the same direction, smashing several cars and doing some other damage. One of the Engineers was injured slightly in jumping from his engine.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 4

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