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| Description: | Elevated view of people standing around the engine of "Soo Line" wreck in winter. |
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| Description: | Soo Line train wreck. People are standing on and around the train wreckage. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Soo Line train wreck. There are railroad tracks with overturned cars, and people standing around. |
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| Description: | View of a people walking on railroad tracks near a derailed train. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | People looking at the train cars and undamaged front end of the Wisconsin Telephone Company truck involved in the Milwaukee Road passenger train-truck acci... |
| Date: | 09 16 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Freight Cars Wrecked at Sheridan, Wis." A group of people are posing with a line of severely derailed and damaged railroad cars. |
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| Description: | A collision of a freight train with an excursion train on the Chicago and North Western Railway, resulting in six deaths and at least 46 people injured. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | People watching railroad workers attempting to extricate the bodies of three men who died under the wheels of the Milwaukee Road passenger train locomotive... |
| Date: | 12 22 1906 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Trolley Wreck at Reedsville, Dec. 22, 1906." A streetcar has rolled onto its side, off of the tracks. Several people are looking at t... |
| Date: | 06 22 1935 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people viewing the remains of a Keystone Fuel & Material Co. truck after it was crushed by a Milwaukee Road train, near the Brittingham Park cro... |
| Date: | 08 10 1934 |
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| Description: | A large group of people stands around the covered body of H.C. Townley, Oregon school teacher, killed by a Milwaukee Road freight train, at the University ... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards a large group of people standing near the wreck of a train. Railroad cars have fallen over to the left of the tracks. Two... |
| 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: | 05 30 1941 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from bank of workmen gathered at the site of a train derailment. The man in suit and hat at far left is identified as a police offic... |
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