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Chester, PA Train Accident, May 1896

Posted October 22nd, 2007 by Linda Horton

CHESTER, Pa., May 25.----Elizabeth Culp, 2½ years of age, was crushed to death by cruel trolley car wheels. The tot was playing in front of her home, and started across the street just as the car came along. She was knocked down on the track and both wheels passed over her body, crushing an mangling it in a shocking manner. Mrs. Culp a moment before had left the child and gone into the house. When she returned to the front door the woman was horrified by seeing her baby lying dead on the track. Motorman Michael Sullivan says he did not see the child.

New Oxford Item, New Oxford, PA 29 May 1896

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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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