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Sand Bank, OH Train Wreck, May 1908

Posted June 25th, 2008 by Linda Horton

Train Wreck is Ohio.

Columbus, O., May 19.---Norfolk and Western passenger train, on the branch line between Sardinia and Hillsboro, was wrecked today by the spreading of rails at a point called Sand Bank, two miles west of here. There was but one coach on the train in which were riding fifteen or twenty people of whom ten or twelve were more or less painfully hurt.

The Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, AL 20 May 1908
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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