TRAIN ACCIDENT AT KIMMELL, INDIANA 1905, FULLY DOCUMENTED - This is an incredible mounted photograph of a horrific train accident that occurred in Kimmell, Indiana on September 16, 1905.  Onlookers stand amidst a massive pile of twisted iron, where three people died and twenty people were injured. What is truly exceptional about this photograph is the extensive handwritten documentation (flip to see verso of board) by a person who most likely worked for the railroad.  

It reads: “Wreck at Kimmell, Ind. Sept 16, 1905.  Passenger train #14 sideswiped a light eng + through the engine & 5 cars of the 9 passing cars in to a unrecognizable mass killing Eng S.D. Snyder & Baggageman Frank Snoots of Chgo Jct and Walter Wilson of Zanesville Ohio a young man who was (beating this way over the road). Twenty or more passengers were injured. 

Chgo Jct (now Willard Ohio)
Cond - B.C. Lewis
Flagman - H.B. Dougherty
Baggman - Frank Smoots

#14 Engine 1459 - Garrett, Ind.

Eng - S.D. Snyder
Fireman - Peter Brennen

Lite Eng 2008 - Garrett Ind.

Eng - J.C. Steffens

.  Lite engine was running down a new track and did not know they were about to the end, coming out to the main, when #14 passenger train side swiped it. - B.C. Smith, Garrett, Ind."

Photograph is in excellent condition with excellent contrast and mount has chips to corners and edges.  Exceptional piece of documentation of a midwestern train wreck at the turn of the century!

Format:  Silver gelatin mounted photograph on board / Cabinet photograph

Board:  10” x 8”

Image:  6.75” x 4.75”