Bolling, AL Train Wreck, Mar 1896

Posted March 3rd, 2008 by J M

Ran Into a Timber Train

Montgomery, Ala., March 2. - - A fast train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, northbound ran into a timber car at Bolling, about 50 miles south of Montgomery. The boiler was crushed and Engineer Harvey Adams was so severely scalded that he died in six hours. A negro fireman had one arm broken and was badly but not fatally scalded.

Steubenville Daily Herald, Steubenville, OH 2 Mar 1896
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Transcribed by Jim Martin. Thanks J M!

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