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Description: Accident on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, January 14, 1864. The morning express train... Telegram from Pittsburgh published in the papers of New York of January 15, says: train ran off the track the cars made a leap of some forty feet into the Little Juanita River... People of the town of Birmingham came to the recue. The early Pennsylvania Central morning express from Cleveland, Ohio was near Birmingham in central Pennsylvania when it left the tracks and two passenger cars were thrown forty feet down an embankment to the bed of the Little Juniata River. The stoves in the carriages started a fire but despite the crash, the fire, and the some injuries, no fatalities were reported. Source Citation "Railroad Accident," New York Times, January 15, 1864 "A Railroad 'Accident', " Harper's Weekly Newspaper, February 6, 1864, p. 85. Identifier: harpersweeklyv8bonn (find matches) Title: Harper's weekly Year: 1857 (1850s) Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Conant, Samuel Stillman, 1831-1885? Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 Foord, John, 1842-1922 Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Nelson, Henry Loomis, 1846-1908 Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928 Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937 Subjects: Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: then (quietly sitting down by it) would m.-crtand draw it forth with the li-piidprocess she repeated till of ascending to then making away with all tho soap the washing- (_i.ii ideriug how much the cat abhonour readers must often have wondereding men are so fond of taking the animion a voyage. This is explained by strongly developed in it .hy sea-far- stanccs. Marine insurance doesdone to cargo by the depredations of rats; but ifthe owner of the damaged goods can prove that theship was sent to sea unfurnished with a cat he can found abandoned onwith only a cat on bonavigated her safely a probably care any ; tho rocks, and will i HUMORS OF THE DAT. iow expressed according t ;,.:■,. ■ . !■ C: Ilii.niC, v.),..-.. \,.„ Kri.ti.n.i i t FlsmsBMER.—Crabbes Tales. THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN. i perfectly true that there ii .our daughters, too, what loves of girl(And give it perhapa the measles). (The better for my brandy!) v.;:,; ??:™?™^»»»l . HARPER'S WEEKLY. February 6, 1864. Text Appearing After Image: February 6, 1864. HARPER'S WEEKLY. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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