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Fatal Train Wrecks

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 32.

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Fatal Train Wrecks

On July 24 one fatal trainwreck occurred in Mexico and three in this country. In one which occurred at Llano, Sonora, Mexico, five persons lost their lives, and a large number were injured. Near McConnellville, Ohio, the rear coach of a train jumped the track on a high trestle and fell forty feet. Two persons were killed, and a number injured. Near South Omaha, Nebraska; on the same day the Chicago-Denver flyer was wrecked, one man was killed and three injured. At Xenia, Ohio, a fast passenger train crashed into a loaded coal car, and in the ensuing wreck seven persons lost their lives, and fifteen were seriously injured.