kipton, ohio train wreck

Marker can be reached from Ohio Route 511 0.1 miles west of Ohio Route 511. The crash occurred when a fast mail train heading east near Kipton and a passenger train going west from Elyria collided. The official state inspector's report (reprinted in "The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company’s 1891 Disaster at Kipton, Ohio—Revisited," William M. Hoffer, NAWCC Bulletin No. The fast mail was running at full speed, and the Toledo express was almost at a spot where it would traditionally pull over on a siding to let the fast mail pass. -- A frightful wreck occurred on the Lake Shore railroad at Kipton station, about forty miles west of Cleveland, this evening, in which six postal clerks and two engineers were killed. Eight people lost their lives, and the depot was heavily damaged. That’s what happened in Kipton, Ohio on April 18, 1891, in what came to be known as the Great Kipton Train Disaster. Kipton is a village in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. 346, October 2003, pp. It was a train wreck that killed nine people, six of … 563-572) did note the watch error, although he didn't attribute the wreck to it.

21, Toledo express, just as the latter train was about to pull on a side track to let the fast mail pass. The fast mail, No. The Great Kipton Train Wreck By Nancy Pope, Historian and Curator On April 18, 1891, near Kipton station, 40 miles west of Cleveland, Ohio, the fast mail train #14 collided with the Toledo Express. The population was 243 at the 2010 census. On April 18, 1891, near Kipton station, 40 miles west of Cleveland, Ohio, the fast mail train #14 collided with the Toledo Express. 14, bound east, collided with No.

On April 19, 1891, a head-on collision between two trains of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company occurred at the Kipton depot.

At Elyria, 25 miles from Cleveland, the engineer and the conductor of the ACCOMMODATION were given orders to let the fast mail pass them at Kipton, a small station west of Oberlin, the University town. Great Kipton Train Wreck Marker 41° 16.028′ N, 82° 18.306′ W. Marker is in Kipton, Ohio, in Lorain County.

The massive collision killed nine men, six of them postal clerks working on the fast

On April 19, 1891 the first mail train known as No.4 was coming west on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad in Kipton, Ohio.

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