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Olive Hill, KY Train Wreck, May 1908

Posted July 5th, 2008 by Linda Horton

Wreck Killed Two.

Huntington, W. Va., May 26.---Two persons are dead and another perhaps fatally wounded, as the result of a railroad accident at Olive Hill, Ky., 40 miles south of here. The dead are: William R. Kennedy, Huntington, and Wilbur Johnson,. The injured, Walter Clemens. The men were employes[sic] of a wreck train that had gone to replace a derailed locomotive.

The Columbus Enquirer-Sun, Columbus, GA 27 May 1908
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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