18.85.2

Print, Photographic

1916

Crowd Viewing New Richland Train Crash. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" black and white postcard photograph of many men standing around Engine #456, which is derailed and on its side; it crashed on March 22, 1916, south of New Richland, killing engineer, A. C. Stover.

Postcard was glued to a poster which read: "Do you remember this train wreck one mile South of New Richland that stormy night in March, 1916?" From a collection of Clem W. Kral, former M&St. Louis telegrapher.