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Train Wreck Halt's Visit Of The Big CircusSells Urns.'s Six Enormous Railroad Shows woulil visit London on Monday, Sept. 25, said an advertisement in The Mountain Echo of Aug, IS, IS 82. A couple weeks later was reported the visit of the “advance car of Peter Sells, youngest ot the Sells Bros., Saturday and Sunday,” Peter, It was said, was “handsome and “created quite nil excitement.ofBut the circus never got here and a crowd ostium ted up to 5,000— probably 3,000—was disappointed. The circus train had wrecked at Paint Lick, several cars rolled down the embankment and seven of them were destroyed. Three men wore killed, and one of the twelve wounded died later, Too many brakes were left off and the engine could not control” the train, the Echo explained,*f ? ? TtT❖f?TTt❖fTT❖❖fV❖see uto iv e re. vas iad, oth rse akeDisappointed in not seeing the circus, 200 of the crowd took advantage of their presence in London to take the Tuesday morning train for Lebanon, Louisville and other places; several to Lebanon to confer with the Sells Bros, on business.Torpedo Opened The Way❖fvt❖❖fv❖
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London Sentinel Echo
London, Kentucky, US
Thu, Feb 06, 1919
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