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Blown From The Track

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
February
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Denver, CoL, Feb. 18.- A wind-storm blowing sixty miles an hour raged from four a. m. until two p. m. Thursday. Many buildings in this city wera unroofed and other erious damage done. Outsid of Denver the casualties reported sre considerably greater than in toe city. The Leadville express oc the Denver & South Park road was blown over a bridge near Como and nearly all the passengere and trammen were severely wounded and the coaches wera badly wrecked. A passenger train on the same road which lelt the Union depot for Momson at eight o'clock was hurled down te the foot of an embankinent w'uen about twelve miles from this city. One passenger had a leg broken and several others badly bruised. On the Denver & Ric Grande railway, four miles north of Colorado Springs, every coach of the north-bound Salt Lake express, conaisting of two sleepers, two passenger coaches, a baggage and a mail-oar was blown from the track about three a. m., and th mailcar, with its contents, was burned. No ona was hurt.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register