Circus Train Wreck at McCann’s Crossing
Posted By thecircusblog on September 16, 2009
SEVEN KILLED AND NINETEEN INJURED The Cars Went Down a Steep Grade and Over an Embankment. LIONS AND TIGERS GOT LOOSE. Fifty Horses Were Killed Outright, and Others Were so Injured that They Will Have to be Killed — The Elephants and Camels Safe — Many Animals Es- caped to the Woods — A Tiger Made for a Farmhouse and Killed a Cow, Being in Turn Killed by the Farmer — Scenes About the Wreck
ALTOONA, Penn., May 30 — The most complete railroad wreck that has occurred in this section for many years took place this morning at a place known as McCann’s Crossing, on the Tyrone and Clearfield Railway, about three miles from Tyrone, a station on the main line of the Pennsylvnia, fourteen miles from Altoona
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http://www3.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/9716/altoona-pa-near-circus-train-wrecks-may-1893
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