Flying church on a moving Kansas Pacific train
From Topeka Daily Commonwealth June 18 1871 a Buffalo hunters town Ellis hosts a remarkable Pullman car religious service on a moving train at 30 miles per hour praising God in the Great American Desert conductors and crew note the scene as memorable. An Abilene shootout follows a Wednesday weapons incident cited as proof of dangerous street carrying laws in 1871. Police arrest both men. In Pryor Oklahoma a two car crash kills Margaret Jackson 68 and wounds Ethel Jackson 82 and three teens hospitalized.
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