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From: "Jolene Darnold" <>
Subject: Re: [NEDAWES] Train wreck at Whitney Nebraska 1921
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:46:28 -0500
References: <1187867163.840597@rootsweb.com>


Any chance you could scan the pictures... I'm sure they'd be of interest
here. Thanks.
I grew up in Marsland... another tiny burb in Dawes county! Jolene

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Subject: Re: [NEDAWES] Train wreck at Whitney Nebraska 1921


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> Author: BPope8251
> Surnames: CASWELL, SHEETS and MAYFIELD
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> On 11/26/2006 I posted this message on .
> Re: White River Train Wreck, Whitney, Dawes, NE
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> I have post card size pictures of the wreck that occurred when high flood
> waters, washed the bridge out. On the front and back of some of these, my
> grandmother Lura MAYFIELD Caswell wrote information. She writes that at
> the time my grandfather George Elmer Caswell ran the telephone switchboard
> in Whitney and that they lived above the bank. She made X's on the
> pictures beside herself, my mom Rachel who she was holding, my grandfather
> and his brother John, explaining that they are lifting the dead and
> injured out of the top of a train car and my great-grandparents David and
> Sarah Melvina SHEETS Caswell. I have copies and plan on sending them to
> the museum there, but first I'd like to be able to see if I can get a copy
> of the newspaper article on the wreck and get the exact date. Grandmother
> was 90 when she wrote the information and she had a great memory. She
> wrote that it happened at 11:00 PM, May or June 1922. Any help or
> suggestion's will be greatly appreciated.
> Beverly
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