Peoria, Illinois, USA
1909 - THREE KILLED IN NORTHWESTERN WRECK.

Peoria, Ill., Jan. 16. - Two extra freight trains on the Chicago and Northwestern collided head-on Friday evening four miles northwest of this city. Three trainmen were instantly killed, one is missing and believed to be in the wreckage, and two others were seriously injured.
The dead:
JOE CURTAIN, engineer, Sterling, Ill.
M. METZLER, fireman, home in Virginia.
J. A. RUSSELL, brakeman, Sterling, Illinois.
Missing believed to be in the wreckage:
W. J. WATSON, fireman, Chicago, Ill., serious; probably die.
No cause can definitely be assigned for the disaster, though it is generally believed it was a mistake in train orders.

The Daily Free Press
Carbondale, Illinois
January 16, 1909

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