A CIRCUS TRAIN IN A WRECK ALTOONA, Penn., May 30 1893

[jeff of pa]

WALTER H. MAIN'S SHOW BADLY USED UP. SEVEN KILLED AND NINETEEN INJURED The Cars Went Down a Steep Grade and Over an Embankment. LIONS AND TIGERS GOT LOOSE. Fifty Horses Were Killed Outright, and Others Were so Injured that They Will Have to be Killed -- The Elephants and Camels Safe -- Many Animals Es- caped to the Woods -- A Tiger Made for a Farmhouse and Killed a Cow, Being in Turn Killed by the Farmer -- Scenes About the Wreck.


May 31, 1893, Wednesday
ALTOONA, Penn., May 30 -- The most complete railroad wreck that has occurred in this section for many years took place this morning at a place known as McCann's Crossing, on the Tyrone and Clearfield Railway, about three miles from Tyrone, a station on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, fourteen miles from Altoona. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]

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[ridger12]

It was cool to find this on T-Net. The wreck was just a few miles below my house. For years the locals here had legends of giant snakes and wolves roaming the forest from the train wreck. The train's last stop, Summit Station is located in my front yard.