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Ottawa, KS Area Train Wreck, Jan 1912

Posted July 16th, 2008 by Rosemarie

Three Die in Double Wreck.

Ottawa Kan Jan 15 – A freight train on the Missouri Pacific railway crashed through a trestle twenty miles west of here at 11:30 o’clock Sunday night. Ten minutes later another freight train plunged through the same trestle. The wreckage caught fire.

Three persons are known to be dead. They are Engineer PACKEE, of the first train, Engineer SNYDER, of the second train and LOUIS BLAINE a stockman of Bushing Kan.

The Daily Review, Decatur, IL 15 Jan 1912
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