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This file appears in: Medora Train Wreck
The first notice of the tragedy, published in the Brownstown Banner.
This file appears in: Medora Train Wreck
Medora Train Wreck
On June 8, 1921, a train engine jumped the tracks outside Medora, Indiana. Perhaps it was the hot weather and rain that made the train engine leave the tracks. Seventeen loaded boxcars piled up, some being “reduced to kindling wood.” Three people…