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The Failure of the Ashtabula Bridge
On the evening of December 29th, 1876, at 8'clock, an express train, consisting of two engines and eleven cars, going west, broke through an iron bridge on the line of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, at the crossing of a small stream, about 500 feet east of the station at Ashtabula, Ohio. Of the eleven cars in the train, three were loaded with express matter, one was a baggage car, and the remainder wPrc passenger cars of various descriptions, inclnding three sleeping cars.
The Failure of the Ashtabula Bridge
On the evening of December 29th, 1876, at 8'clock, an express train, consisting of two engines and eleven cars, going west, broke through an iron bridge on the line of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, at the crossing of a small stream, about 500 feet east of the station at Ashtabula, Ohio. Of the eleven cars in the train, three were loaded with express matter, one was a baggage car, and the remainder wPrc passenger cars of various descriptions, inclnding three sleeping cars.
The Failure of the Ashtabula Bridge
Macdonald, Charles (author)
2021-01-01
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