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This black and white photograph shows a Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's funeral train at Temple, Texas. The train carried the remains of ATSF fireman Whittaker to Goldthwaite, Texas after he and engineer Joe Williams were killed by a lone bandit on Saginaw Hill on July 22, 1898.
Date: July 23, 1898
Item Number: 218986
Call Number: ATSF Series 1, #2.15-189
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 218986
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Employees - Engineers
Business and Industry - Railroad - Employees - Firemen
Business and Industry - Railroad - Locomotives - Steam
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1890s - 1898
Home and Family - Death and funerals
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Other States - Texas
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Employees - Engineers
Transportation - Railroads - Employees - Firemen
Transportation - Railroads - Locomotives - Steam
Type of Material - Photographs
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