Wreck at Fiat (1911)

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Howard Courant
November 30, 1911

Monday afternoon a northbound special bumped into some cars at Fiat, tangling up the south bound accomodation and throwing several cars off the track.  This delayed the evening passenger, and it was after midnight before the track could be cleared and the trains were able to come on to Howard, and quite a number of passengers had a dreary, tedious wait of it at the depot.

Mrs. Jacoby was on the accomodation coach and tells us that the special was pushing some cars ahead of the engine and were switching to get off the main line track to let the accomodation by.  They had not cleared when the engine of the accomodation struck the cars, completely demolishing a car of baled hay and turning some other cars off the track.  Several of the passengers in the coach were quite severely shook up, but none were injured. Mrs. Jacoby was given two pretty severe jolts and feels quite sore in her side as a result of the shaking up.