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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 03 23 1934 |
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| Description: | Crowd standing on the Thornton Avenue bank of the Yahara River at the Milwaukee Road railroad bridge looking at a car-train accident scene where Mrs. Clark... |
| Date: | 10 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Bus and streetcar accident at Regent Street and Mills Street, looking north on Mills. |
| Date: | 10 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Bus and street railroad accident at Regent and Mills Streets looking east along Regent Street. The DuBois service station at 1 N. Mills Street is in the ba... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Derailment of a Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault St. Marie Railway train near Waupaca. A large crowd is gathered on an overpass to watch the Soo Line's Wrec... |
| 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: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Kickapoo & Northern Railway locomotive and cars seen here after being derailed due to flooding on the Kickapoo River. |
| Date: | 02 01 1959 |
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| Description: | "Train derailment. Photo taken from North Pole Road. Hwy 28 can be seen in the distance (left)." |
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| Description: | View of a people walking on railroad tracks near a derailed train. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View of group of men standing around the train wreck of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad near Turkey River, Iowa across the river from... |
| Date: | 09 22 1997 |
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| Description: | "In Lomira, a Kondex Corp. employee was killed when three derailed railcars plowed into the concrete block building in the background at 5:30 AM. Eleven of... |
| Date: | 09 22 1997 |
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| Description: | "Looking north along this section of track, one can see the overturned car's wheels, and debris after the derailment. The visible bend in the tracks was ca... |
| Date: | 09 22 1997 |
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| Description: | "A Channel 6 reporter-photographer interviews Dodge County Sheriff, Stephen Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald coordinated security around the crash scene." |
| 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. |
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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... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards the front of a locomotive tipped sideways on the set of railroad tracks on the right. On the left set of railroad tracks ... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards men standing and watching machinery clearing train wreckage. |
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