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Dramatic Air Line collision kills three injures many
A New Year morning head on crash on the Air Line crossing the Lincoln Highway near LaPorte killed motorman James Wickersham and two civilians Mrs Ellen Reed and Floyd Watrous and injured ten others. Freight and passenger cars tore through each other as fog and missed orders sparked the wreck. Rescuers freed victims after hours of entrapment. inquests and investigations followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Wickersham
Laporte
Ellen Reed
New Durham Township
Floyd J. Watrous
Union Town
Lincoln Highway
Holy Family Hospital
James Willis Wickersham
Tenth Streets
New Durham
John Hatfield
Lloyd Watrous
Chesapeake
Ohio
Union Township Union School
Willard Gates
State Street
Hammond
George Cole
Chesterton
J. Fayne
Valparaiso
Floyd Vardaman
Harrison
Gary
Wickersham
Frank H. Brooks
Baker
Henry Herbst
Hohmann Street
Florence Gescheidler
Cashier
Anna Parduhn
Douglas Avenue
Helen Fedder
Gertrude Vardaman
Harrison Street
Frank Herdon
Earl Smith
Harry Vardaman
Lawrence Bayles
Chicago
Vardaman
Lydia Hartke
Sibley Street
Westville
Brooks’ Crossing
Payne
Air Line
Corconer Walkinshaw
Miller
Reed
Miss Parduhn
Frank Brooks
Paul Parduhn
Arthur Linsenman
Mary Spoerner
Mrs. Reed
Igntis
Joe UN Gates
Peyey
Romeone
Saie
Smith
Fr. W. Brooks
Frank Herder
Herdon
William Dunn
Childern
City Fuel & Supply Co
Texas Gas & Oil Co
Miss Hartke
Miss Spoerner
Metroman
Jms. Reed
Arthur
Watrous
Miss Parduln
Herbst
Miss Pardukha
James W. Wickersham
Air Line Road
Ralph
Omaha
Neb
Frank Beckwith
Rev
Morris
Pine Lake Cemetery
Weir & Petering
Pinhook
Frank Reed
Pennsylvania
Scott
Ofalifornia
Roy? Reed
New
England