On the night of March 8 [sic], between eleven and twelve o'clock, while the way freight train, with a passenger car attached, was crossing the bridge over the narrow passage on the Harper's Ferry Valley Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, sixty-three miles from Harper's Ferry, the middle span gave way, and the engine, tender and train fell through and were wrecked. The following are the names of the killed: [here begins a list of eleven men, including...] J.A. Baldwin, Baltimore. Six persons were wounded. The bodies of the killed were immediately sent to Winchester, placed in charge of an undertaker, and will be sent to their relatives and friends.
SOURCE: (rbobwkga) The Highland Weekly News, March 16, 1876. (Hillsboro, Ohio)
Thank you Richard Osburn for the added information.
SOURCE: (rbobwkga) The Highland Weekly News, March 16, 1876. (Hillsboro, Ohio)
Thank you Richard Osburn for the added information.
On the night of March 8 [sic], between eleven and twelve o'clock, while the way freight train, with a passenger car attached, was crossing the bridge over the narrow passage on the Harper's Ferry Valley Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, sixty-three miles from Harper's Ferry, the middle span gave way, and the engine, tender and train fell through and were wrecked. The following are the names of the killed: [here begins a list of eleven men, including...] J.A. Baldwin, Baltimore. Six persons were wounded. The bodies of the killed were immediately sent to Winchester, placed in charge of an undertaker, and will be sent to their relatives and friends.
SOURCE: (rbobwkga) The Highland Weekly News, March 16, 1876. (Hillsboro, Ohio)
Thank you Richard Osburn for the added information.
SOURCE: (rbobwkga) The Highland Weekly News, March 16, 1876. (Hillsboro, Ohio)
Thank you Richard Osburn for the added information.
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