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WRECK AT KINGSMILL

Michigan Central Freight Train Smashed

[People’s Press, 9 May 1905]

St. Thomas-May 6-A bad wreck 0ccurred on the Michigan Central railway two miles west of Kingsmill yesterday at 5 a.m. through an axles of a freight car breaking. Eighteen cars were derailed and piled up six in a tier. The train was a fast merchandise. One car was loaded with steel plates. There were two carloads of pianos and several automobiles, all of which were smashed to pieces.

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