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Valencia, PA Train Wreck, Aug 1896
Posted October 23rd, 2007 by Stu Beitler
RAILWAY WRECK.
Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 24 --- The through express train from Chicago on the Pittsburg & Western railway, which was due in this city at 11:35 p. m. was wrecked at Valencia, a small station twenty miles west of here, at 11:30 o'clock today, and more that a score of passengers were injured, four of whom may die.
Just before the passenger train reached that place, there was a collision of freight trains which threw a number of freight cars on to the main track, and the express train, coming along at the rate of thirty miles a hour, plunged into the wrecked freight cars.
Nearly every car of the express was wrecked, and the escape of the passengers from instant death is remarkable.
Daily Enquirer Utah 1896-08-25
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!
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