Trainwreck at Whites Station, Kentucky photographs
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Trainwreck at Whites Station, Kentucky photographs
- Date
- 1910 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 0.09 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Railroad accidents -- Kentucky
- Transportation -- Kentucky
- Railroads -- Kentucky.
- Preferred Citation
- 2015av012: [identification of item], Trainwreck at Whites Station, Kentucky photographs, 1910, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- On March 22, 1910, two freight trains (no. 76 and no. 913) collided head-on on the L&N railroad. Four men died as a result of the wreck, including Sandford, an engineer from Paris, Kentucky; Geo. Devore, a fireman from Richmond, Kentucky; James O'Rourke, a fireman from Paris, Kentucky; and Russell Sloan, a fireman from Paris, Kentucky. The bodies of the men in the wreckage were almost beyond recognition due to the severity of the crash. The wreck occurred after the night operator in Berea, Young Hays, failed to send a message to hold one of the trains. In addition to lives lost, the total monetary damage amounted to $150,000.
- Scope and Content
- Trainwreck at Whites Station, Kentucky photographs (1910; 0.09 cubic feet; 4 items) includes four mounted silver gelatin prints of the train crash that occurred in Richmond Kentucky, on March 31, 1910.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- Property rights reside with the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky holds the copyright for materials created in the course of business by University of Kentucky employees. Copyright for all other materials has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky. For information about permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections.
Contents of the Collection
Wreck at Whites Station, KY. March 22nd 1910. Eng's 911 and 916 head on collision. Eng Sandford (dead), Bowling (dead), fireman Rourke (dead), Devoure (dead)., 1910
Trainwreck image, car number 41116, 1910
632 Elmary Park - train car numbers 63710 and 914, 1910
Trainwreck images car number 41116, 1910
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