18.85.3

Postcard, Photographic

1916

Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad. M & St. L Railroad New Richland Train Wreck. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" black and white postcard photograph of a group of people standing in debris, by the Minneapolis and St. Louis train wreck, South of New Richland, March 22, 1916; note the flour that scattered from one of the wrecked railroad cars.

Postcard was glued to a poster with message: "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.