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Title: Ambulances, train wreck, March 21, 1910, Green Mountain, Iowa
Description: Ambulances lined up to transport the victims of the March 21, 1910 train wreck near Green Montain, Iowa. 1910 postmark.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14399

Title: C. & N.W. Wreck, May 30, 1911, Chelsea, Iowa, Chicago & North Western Wreck
Description: May 30, 1911 Chicago & North Western train wreck near Chelsea, Iowa in Wright and Tama counties. A passenger car is leaning precariously off of the tracks while people young and old look on. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13892

Title: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad [Train] Wreck, March 21, 1910, C.R.I. and P. R.R. Wreck, Gladbrook, Iowa
Description: Pulling bodies from the passenger cars where over 50 people died in this horrific train wreck near Green Mountain and Gladbrook, Iowa on March 21,1910. 1910 postmark.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13882

Title: Chicago & North Western Train Wreck, April 23, 1908, De_Witt, Iowa, Silver Creek
Description: Several men are standing in front of a train wreck. On April 23, 1908, southwest of DeWitt, Iowa, at Silver Creek, flooding weakened a bridge and gave way to stock train 132 where an engine and 17 cars of cattle fell into the water. Three crewmen perished in the wreck.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16184

Title: Chicago Great Western train wreck, Clarksville, Iowa
Description: On May 5, 1910, there was a Chicago, Great Western freight train pile up outside Clarksville, Iowa, with one death and 3 injured.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14066

Title: Chicago and North Western Train Wreck, April 23, 1908, De Witt, Iowa, Silver Creek
Description: View of the wrecked train. On April 23, 1908, southwest of DeWitt, Iowa, at Silver Creek, flooding weakened a bridge and gave way to stock train 132 where an engine and 17 cars of cattle fell into the water. Three crewmen perished in the wreck.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16950

Title: Chicago and North Western Train Wreck, April 23, 1908, De Witt, Iowa, Silver Creek
Description: Men, women and children are looking at an aftermath of a train wreck. On April 23, 1908, southwest of DeWitt, Iowa, at Silver Creek, flooding weakened a bridge and gave way to stock train 132 where an engine and 17 cars of cattle fell into the water. Three crewmen perished in the wreck.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16185

Title: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Train Wreck June, 4, 1913, Estherville, Iowa
Description: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Train Wreck June, 4, 1913, Estherville, Iowa
PID: grinnell:16780

Title: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Train Wreck, June 4, 1913, Estherville, Iowa
Description: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Train Wreck, June 4, 1913, Estherville, Iowa
PID: grinnell:16777

Title: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Train Wreck, October 24, 1912, Eldon, Iowa
Description: Looking at a freight train wreck near Eldon, Iowa, on October 24, 1912. Construction of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad began October 1, 1851, in Chicago, and the first train was operated on October 10, 1852, between Chicago and Joliet. Construction continued on through La Salle, and Rock Island was reached on February 22, 1854, becoming the first railroad to connect Chicago with the Mississippi River. Eldon had its start in the year 1870 by the building of the Keokuk and Des Moines Railway through that territory. Eldon was incorporated in 1872. 1912 postmark.
PID: grinnell:16799