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These black and white photographs show the wreckage between two Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway locomotives east of north Topeka, Kansas. The accident occurred when oil train #185 collided into the construction train that was pulling six flat cars near the Kaw Valley school house about 2 miles north of the three bridge over Soldier Creek. At the time of the collision, there were approximately 60 to 70 section workers aboard the construction train. Many of the workers either escaped to safety or were severely injured, but seventeen of them were pronounced dead at the scene.
Date: October 08, 1909
Item Number: 220833
Call Number: FK2.S5 T.74 ATSF *240-241
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 220833
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Work trains
Business and Industry - Railroad - Wrecks
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1900s - 1909
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Work trains
Transportation - Railroads - Wrecks
Type of Material - Photographs
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