Murphysboro, IL Train Wreck, Feb 1909
Posted June 29th, 2008 by June
Four Killed In Wreck.
Illinois Central Train Runs Into Broken Rail on a Trestle.
Murphysboro, Ill., Feb. 16.-Four passengers were killed and thirty-six injured to-day when an Illinois Central train, bound from St. Louis to New Orleans, was wrecked on a trestle by running into a broken rail six miles east of Murphysboro.
The dead are MRS. GRACE PERRY, Carbondale, Ill.; SHERIFF ALDEN and MRS. ALDEN, Union County, Illinois, and B. BRINKLEY, Carbondale.
Among the injured are the REV. H. M. MCCLELLAN of Murphysboro and sixteen members of the PERRY HASTINGS show troupe, slightly hurt. None of the injured will die.
The train was running fifty-five miles an hour when it hit the broken rail. The locomotive passed over the trestle safely, but the baggage car and the smoking car went off the track and threw the four remaining cars down an embankment.
The New York Times, New York, NY 17 Feb 1909
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