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Romeo, IL Train Wreck, Jul 1905

Posted March 26th, 2008 by June

Wreck in Illinois.

Santa Fe Passenger Train Collides with Construction Train-One Killed, Seven Fatally Injured.

Chicago, Ill., July 18.-One man was killed, another fatally injured and twenty persons were hurt today, several seriously, in a collision between a southbound construction train with a northbound passenger train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad one and on-half miles north of Romeo, Ill. Killed: WILLIAM KOLK, messenger for Wells-Fargo Express.

Fatally Injured:
DAVID YOUNG, signalman.

The boiler of the passenger train exploded immediately after the collision. The smoking car was telescoped and two other cars were derailed.

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 19 Jul 1905
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