What the records say
- When
- 27 Sep 1903
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 36.60° N, 79.39° W
- Description
- 1903 Southern Railway mail train disaster
- Deaths
- 11
Wreck of the Old 97
1903 Southern Railway mail train disaster
The Wreck of the Old 97 was an American rail disaster involving the Southern Railway mail train, officially known as the Fast Mail, while en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, on September 27, 1903.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Wreck of the Old 97 Fast Mail train at Stillhouse Trestle, near Danville, Virginia, kills 11 people and inspires a ballad”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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