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Charles Vogle of Albany, New York in 1876

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Charles Vogle of Albany, New York in 1876

BasketLady420  (View posts) Posted: 1 Mar 2008 4:59AM GMT
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Surnames: Vogle
Charles Vogle, age 36, (married) of Albany, New York is listed among the dead in a train accident.

The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Train No. 5, The Pacific Express left a snowy Erie, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of December 29, 1876. As The Pacific Express plowed through the snow and crossed a bridge over the Ashtabula River, about 100 yards from the railroad station at Ashtabula, Ohio, the passengers heard a terrible cracking sound. In just seconds, the bridge fractured and the train plunged 70 feet into a watery abyss.


I am not related to this family, just passing on this information which comes from a website called "Ashtabula Bridge Disaster." The link for the site is listed below.
Joyce

http://home.alltel.net/arhf/bridge.htm

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