Wheeling, WV Train Accident Feb 1910
FIREMAN IS KILLED.
Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 19.--A Wheeling & Lake Erie railway freight engine, running wild, crashed through a trestle over a creek fifteen miles from here today, falling thirty feet and burying the engineer, fireman and two brakeman. The fireman was killed. The others were probably fatally hurt.
The Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, WI 19 Feb 1910
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