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Nicholsville, KY Train Wreck, Nov 1890

Posted January 13th, 2008 by Linda Horton

Railway Wreck in Kentucky.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 7.----A train on the Louisville and Nashville road dashed into a Cincinnati Southern Express near Nicholsville, Ky., Friday morning, the engine tearing a sleeping car to fragments. The passengers miraculously escaped death, but several of them were severely injured. W. T. Hardie, general freight agent of the Savannah, Florida and Western railroad, and B. N. Austin, assistant general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific, were the ones most seriously hurt.

Decatur Morning Review, Decatur, IL 8 Nov 1890
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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