Charles was one of the victims of one of the worst railroad accidents in 19th-century America—the "Angola Horror," as newspapers subsequently dubbed it. At a little past 3 in the afternoon, while crossing over a high railroad bridge in the western New York village of Angola, the last two cars of the Buffalo-bound express jumped the tracks and tumbled 30 to 50 feet into the icy, treacherous gorge below. Both cars burst into flames, trapping passengers inside.
Charles was from La Crosse, Wis., and an editor at the Daily Republican;
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. Fortunately he missed it.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
Charles was from La Crosse, Wis., and an editor at the Daily Republican;
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. Fortunately he missed it.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
Charles was one of the victims of one of the worst railroad accidents in 19th-century America—the "Angola Horror," as newspapers subsequently dubbed it. At a little past 3 in the afternoon, while crossing over a high railroad bridge in the western New York village of Angola, the last two cars of the Buffalo-bound express jumped the tracks and tumbled 30 to 50 feet into the icy, treacherous gorge below. Both cars burst into flames, trapping passengers inside.
Charles was from La Crosse, Wis., and an editor at the Daily Republican;
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. Fortunately he missed it.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
Charles was from La Crosse, Wis., and an editor at the Daily Republican;
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. Fortunately he missed it.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
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