Train Wreck Near Grant City on October 2nd, 1910

The recent train wreck in East Palestine (OH) has put train wrecks in the news, and Missouri has had its share. The Worth County Tribune of October 6th, 1910 reported on a train wreck that happened in Grant City on the 2nd.

The front truck of a car that was loaded with lumber went off the track; then, the hind trucks of a car loaded with sand followed, then another car loaded with apples went entirely off the rails and nearly went down an embankment. The rails were broken in several places, and the ties, which were rotted, were crushed into fragments. The car immediately behind and in front of the wrecked cars were loaded with E.C. Costin’s cattle bound for Chicago. They had to bring a wrecker up from St. Joseph to put the derailed cars back on the track.