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    1. [INMONROE] Twelve Injured in Train Collision at Smithville
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    3. Logansport (IN) Pharos-Tribune, July 15, 1890, p. 19. TWELVE PEOPLE MORE OR LESS BADLY HURT IN A COLLISION New Albany, Ind., July 15-Twelve people were injured in the collision on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Road at Smithville, Indiana, yesterday. Following is the list: Conductor William Brown, fatally crushed; Grant Johnson, Chicago, seriously crushed; William Mitchell Indianapolis, conductor on the freight train, wrist broken; Henry Whitsell, engineer, dangerously hurt in the back; James Meyers, engineer of the passenger, badly cut about the head; Mrs. Patton, Smithville; Engineer Hendricks of the freight train; Jefferson Robertson, brakeman; Everett Foster and wife, Worthington; Ada Pearson, Bedford; David Warren, Bloomington; Charles Marain (sic), conductor of the freight train; William Bagley, Paoli; Thomas Andrews, Bloomington; Alice Walls, Bloomington; Kate Taffe, Indianapolis all less seriously hurt.

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