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Kanawha Falls, WV Train Wreck, Sept 1907
Posted January 13th, 2008 by Linda Horton
SEVEN DEAD IN WRECK.
Seventeen Injured When Chesapeake & Ohio Train Is Derailed.
CHARLESTON, West Va., Sept. 2.----A Chesapeake & Ohio local passenger train, No. 6, was derailed a mile below Kanawha Falls to-night, and as a result seven are dead and seventeen injured.
A coach, the combination express and mail car, and the baggage car overturned rolling toward the Kanawha River.
Among the dead are:
Allen Loving, a law student at West Virginia University, serving as express agent during the Summer.
C. S. Campbell, a telegraph operator.
Spreading of rails is supposed to have caused the accident.
The New York Times, New York, NY 3 Sept 1907
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!
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