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Train Wreck Near LeMars Injures Twenty
A diesel central passenger train derailed after a spreading rail one and a half miles east of LeMars Iowa injuring about twenty passengers. The mail car baggage car and two coaches were thrown from the track. Fire medical crews transported the wounded to LeMars hospital while conductor A T Baumgartner and engineer William Bird oversaw operations.
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LeMars
Wlinois Central
LeMars Hospital
A. T. Baumgartner
William Bird
K Fred Ford
Erne
Theodore T. Hentres
I. J. Crawford
Hazell T. Woodward
L .D. Olsen
Aon
L. G. Huen
Cedar E. H. Parker
le X
Clyde Setkin
Sioux City
Henry PF. Hoeffling
Manson