1886 Railroad Accident, Clay Co., NE

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Six killed in railroad accident--
at Railroad Disaster at Deweese. A construction train hit a bull near the house of George Sheppard while backing down the tracks taking 95 workers to dinner. The cars were thrown into a draw 20', killing six men: R.H. Marvin, hotel-keeper at Deweese, George Burke, St. Louis, Dennis O'Conner, Weston, MO, Dennis Hamilton, Michigan, Robert Collins, England, and Thomas Kelly. 10/19/1886.

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SOURCE:
From Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Adams, Clay, Hall, and Hamilton Counties, NE, 1890,
filmed by W.C.Cox, Tucson, AZ, 1974, LDS microfilm #1000183, it. 1., p. 356, 7

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