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| Last Monday afternoon, between 2 and 3
o'clock, as the regular afternoon westbound train of the Missouri-Illinois was switching
at Flat River, a box car climbed the rail at the switch about one hundred yards west of
the depot and went completely over the bank. When about half way over the embankment,
which is high at this point, the car overturned, leaving the trucks and rolled completely
over on one side. The train crew, using a heavy steel cable fastened to their locomotive, pulled the overturned car clear of the rails and removed the trucks to allow room for trains to pass. They were delayed at Flat River something more than an hour by the accident. Fortunately no one was injured. Published by THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Fri. May 25, 1928.RAILROAD INDEX PAGE |