As the newspapers reported itThe 1926 Scenic Limited train wreck

1 day of original coverage, September 6, 1926, one clipping a day from the papers of 1926. Newest last, the way readers lived it.

Monday, September 6, 1926

Colorado train wreck · day 2, the count still rising

As printed: Many Pathetic Scenes

ContextThe Denver and Rio Grande Western's crack Scenic Limited left the rails yesterday on a sharp curve nine miles below Granite, Colorado, its engine plunging into the Arkansas river and dragging five coaches after it. Officials at Salida put the dead at twenty-five today, four of them unidentified, with fifty-eight injured in the railroad hospital there.

Brownsville Herald · Brownsville, Texas · page 1 · View the page at the Library of Congress
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