What the records say
- When
- 26 Nov 1905
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 42.43° N, 71.34° W
Baker Bridge train wreck
1905 train wreck in Massachusetts, U.S.
The Baker Bridge train wreck occurred on November 26, 1905, in Lincoln, Massachusetts, when two passenger trains on the Fitchburg line of the Boston and Maine Railroad were involved in a rear-end collision. Seventeen people were killed in the wreck. Engineer Horace W. Lyons was charged with manslaughter; however, a grand jury chose not to indict him.
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