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Train wreck blacks out 1000 Wickliffe homes
A Nickel Plate Road freight derailment near Wickliffe damaged power lines, plunging about 1,000 homes in Wickliffe and area into darkness. One man killed, another seriously injured, and six crewmen unharmed as 40 cars derailed in the incident. Firefighters battled a boxcar blaze until power was restored about an hour later. Roy Sickels, 45, of New York, was identified as the deceased, while George Walker, 34, of Hamp ton, N J., was found seriously injured with a severed arm. Walker, a transient, was pulled from the wreckage by Rev. Francis A. Cullen. The train, en route from Buffalo to Chicago, was traveling about 60 mph.
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Willoughby
Ohio
Lloyd Road
Wickliffe
Roy Sickels
New York
George Walker
Hampton
N. J
Euclid Glenville Hospital
Walker
Francis A. Cullen
Conneaut
Cleveland Electric Iluminating Co
Euclid