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Baker Bridge train wreck

26 Nov 1905 · 42.43° N, 71.34° W

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26 Nov 1905
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Terrorist attack
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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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