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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1951
Page
3
A gasoline truck stalled near Rio de Janeiro triggered a fiery crash as a Central Do Brasil train struck it. Officials report 80 to 100 dead and about 50 injured, with all fatalities in the first and last cars due to fire from spilled fuel. The engine could not stop, sparks ignited an explosion, and the last car settled amid the burning wreckage.
At the 1951 Hawkeye Boys State elections in Des Moines nationalist George Nimmer Cedar Rapids won the governorship with 379 votes to 830 for federalist runner up Jack Walter Mason City. Jack White Iowa City became lieutenant governor and Cedar Rapids triplets Wayne Warne and Waldo Mead were named secretary of state and supreme court judge, with Mead also winning superintendent of public instruction.
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