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| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | On-lookers survey a wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a locomotive collision at the Wisconsin State Fair. This was a much advertised spectacle. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Corliss. A large crowd of men are watching as a Bucyrus crane is lifting a car b... |
| Date: | 05 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wreck of a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad freight train. The derailment is so severe that the train station has been knocked off... |
| Date: | 05 24 1912 |
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| Description: | Wreck of a Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault St. Marie Railroad train on a bridge over the Black River near Withee. The damage is so severe that the cars have ... |
| Date: | 09 15 1907 |
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| Description: | View of the train wreck which occurred September 15th. The locomotive lies on its side with a damaged passenger car. Caption reads: "The wreck at Canaan, N... |
| Date: | 03 27 1908 |
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| Description: | View of the train wreck of the Wells Fargo Express, March 27th. Several men sit on the wreckage, and several other men and a women are nearby. Captionh rea... |
| Date: | 03 27 1908 |
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| Description: | View of the wreck of the Wells Fargo Express number 13, March 27th. Number on the front of the train is "2539." Caption reads: "Wreck of the Wells Fargo Ex... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a train wreck. Survivors and onlookers are gathered on and around the railroad tracks. Caption reads: "Wreck... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View looking down at men gathered at railroad wreck The locomotive is on its side, and the freight cars are demolished. |
| Date: | 10 16 1955 |
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| Description: | Burkie West and his grandaughter Catherine West answer a police officer's questions after their automobile was hit by a train. Both incurred minor injuries... |
| Date: | 09 27 1908 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front right of the badly damaged Engine No. 423 of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. The boiler remains on the railroad ... |
| Date: | 09 1907 |
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| Description: | A group of men and boys are standing amid the wreckage of a train. |
| Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Road locomotive 5508 resting on its side after a derailment. The engine struck the rail, seen in center foreground, which had been driven upright... |
| Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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| Description: | Railroad workers and a crowd of other men, women, and children standing and walking near the wreckage of a freight train. The engine and tender are lying o... |
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