Teachers In A Train Wreck
Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
January
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text
Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 4. - The southbound train on the Keokuk and Western road, which left the city at 7:25 New Year's morning with forty-ejght passengers, half oL whom were schoolteachers returning home from attending the annual state meeting, was derailed and badly wrecked thi-ee miles beyond Norwalk. Eugene Chapman, of Des Moines, was injured about the head, but not seriously. The accident was caused by the track, or rather the roadbed, sliding from beneath the train as it was speeding along at about thirty miles an hour.
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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register