Deadly Train Wreck-Coeur d'Alene,Idaho-Electric Railway 1909 RPPC Photo Postcard

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One of two views from the same wreck that I am listing today. This view shows a head on wreck shortly after it happened on Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad near Gibbs, ID just past the La Crosse siding. An interurban railway which was running numerous trains due to a homestead land rush. Do a search (some info below) online as it is quite a story. Image shows cars telescoped in the center of the image which is how many were killed. RR wreck, disaster, railroad.

Condition: Good, corner and edge wear, soiling, no bends
Postmark: None, never mailed
Publisher: No info

"Oldpostoffice Postcard Co" is only on the digital image and not on the actual card you will receive if you are the high bidder or choose to buy the card.

On Saturday, July 31, 1909, 16 passengers are killed and more than 100 are injured and maimed when two electric interurban trains owned by the Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Company collide head-on at La Crosse Siding (now Gibbs, Idaho), approximately two miles northwest of Coeur d'Alene (some 30 miles from Spokane). The trains, linking Spokane with Coeur d'Alene, are carrying an estimated 600 passengers who are on their way to bid for Indian reservation lands. During this land rush, crowds are so large that the railroad is operating special trains on open schedules, running every 15 to 20 minutes. On a single-track electric railway. At about 4:35 p.m. on Saturday, July 31, 1909, special train No. 5, westbound to Spokane with three cars, crashed head-on with the regular train No. 20, eastbound with four cars, at the La Crosse siding (now Gibbs, Idaho) approximately two miles northwest of Coeur d’Alene. The two trains were carrying an estimated 600 passengers between them.

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