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Wreck on Western Road Triggers Deadly Viaduct Collapse
Special to State Chronicle reports a westbound passenger train derailed near Statesville North Carolina when a misplaced rail sent the train through a sixty foot high trestle at Third Creek. About eighty five aboard, many killed or missing, with survivors including Auditor Sanderlin among the saved but badly injured.
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