Train Wreck
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The home of Asher Gordon, visible to the right, was miraculously spared.
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…