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My great grandfather was killed back in the 1880's when a train broke-through a wooden trestle in Illinois.  I'm not sure of the location or the railroad (I remember someone in the family saying it was the IC and my ancestors lived in central Illinois).  He was working for the railroad and was down in the pump-house where water from the river was pumped up to the tower for delivery to the locomotives.  The hot cinders from the steam engines had slowly degraded the structure, the investigators concluded, and the pump-house was directly underneath the trestle.I saw the micro-filmed newspaper article about the tragedy, and how virtually everybody in the small town rushed to the scene to try and help.  They went on to list the bones that were broken in his body.  It would've been easier to list the bones that weren't broken - or enough to simply say a locomotive fell on the man.
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