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Showing posts with label train wreck. Show all posts

Friday, July 15, 2011

Another Newspaper Account of The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

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I have written previously much about the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885.  For a few examples, see:

Monday, September 24, 2007: The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

Tuesday, September 25, 2007: More About the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

Wednesday, September

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Biographical Data and Photo of the Engineer of the Train that Wrecked in Pelhamville on December 27, 1885

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.Occasionally I have written about the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885 that resulted in the death of Fireman Eugene Blake and injuries to several others including the train engineer, Riley Phillips. See:Monday, September 24, 2007: The Pelhamville Train Wreck of

Monday, February 2, 2009

Brother Shoots Brother in the Pelhamville Train Station in 1880

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.In 1880, a bitter divorce battle led to a fight between two brothers at the Pelhamville train station. One shot the other. The train station at that time was a wooden building that stood essentially where the post office at One Wolfs Lane now stands (the Pelham

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

The Aftermath of the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.I have written before about the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885. See, e.g.:Monday, September 24, 2007: The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885.Tuesday, September 25, 2007: More About the 1885 Train Wreck in Pelhamville.Wednesday, September 26, 2007: The Pelhamville Train

Friday, December 21, 2007

1886 Poem Representing Fictionalized Account of the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.Occasionally I have written about the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885 that resulted in the death of Fireman Eugene Blake and injuries to several others including the train engineer, Riley Phillips. See:Monday, September 24, 2007: The Pelhamville Train Wreck of

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Findings of the Coroner's Inquest That Followed the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.Today I am continuing a series of postings that transcribe news articles that appeared following the train wreck that occurred in Pelhamville in late December 1885. See:Monday, September 24, 2007: The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885Tuesday, September 25, 2007: More

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885 Continued . . .

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.Those who read the Historic Pelham Blog know that I recently began a series of postings that transcribe news articles that appeared following the train wreck that occurred in Pelhamville in late December 1885. See:Monday, September 24, 2007: The Pelhamville Train

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

More About the 1885 Train Wreck in Pelhamville

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.Yesterday I began a series of postings to the Historic Pelham Blog in which I am transcribing news articles about the fatal train wreck that occurred on the New Haven main line in Pelhamville in late 1885. See Monday, September 24, 2007: The Pelhamville Train Wreck

Monday, September 24, 2007

The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.I have written about an unusual train wreck that occurred in late 1885 in Pelhamville. See The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885: "One of the Most Novel in the Records of Railroad Disasters", 80(1) The Westchester Historian pp. 36-43 (2004). For the next several days I

Friday, September 14, 2007

Malicious Vandals Imperil Lives on a Passenger Train Passing Through Pelhamville in 1893

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.In the wee hours of the morning, shortly after midnight on May 31, 1893, a train of the New-York, New-Haven and Hartford Railroad Company passing through Pelhamville struck a railroad tie that had maliciously been placed across the tracks. An article about the

Friday, July 6, 2007

Fatal Train Wreck Near Pelham Manor in 1902

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.On September 26, 1902 there was a fatal train wreck on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad line near Pelham. The conductor of the train, George Hart, was killed in the accident.A brief account of the wreck appeared in The Sun on September 27, 1902. It read