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Wright, KS Train Wreck, Jan 1912

Posted August 10th, 2008 by Linda Horton

FATAL TRAIN WRECK IN KANSAS

Engines Collide in Blizzard and Kill Engineer---Others Injured

Wright, Kan., Jan. 8---Unable to see the station lights in the blinding snow storm, Engineer C. C. Deming of the Santa Fe passenger train No. 2, last night ran past the station here. Before he could back his train into the siding, his train was struck by the Newton-Dodge City local, west bound. Deming fatally scalded. Engineer J. W. Chalfant of the local was killed, and twelve passenger[sic] were hurt.

Aberdeen Daily American, Aberdeen, SD 9 Jan 1912

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ENGINEER BLINDED BY BLIZZARD

Drives His Train Past Station and Collides Head-On With Local.

TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 5.---Engineer J. W. Chalfant was killed and fifteen passengers injured early today when Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train No. 12 overran the station of Wright, near here, in a blinding snow storm and collided with a local train. Engineer C. A. Deming in charge of the passenger train, was also fatally injured.

Engineer Deming could not see the lights of the station at Wright because of the blinding snow. He was to have passed local train No. 565 at that point, but continued on at a high rate of speed and the two trains crashed head-on.

The injured as well as those who escaped, suffered intensely from the cold, the temperature being below zero.

Lincoln Evening News, Lincoln, NE 6 Jan 1912
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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