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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription I must send along some more when convenient. There will be a fifty dollar payment to be made on the Rent of the house about this time. The Lease is at the Bank, and they will look out for that if I only have money enough there. It is a dreadful time on the Rail Road Tracks here just now: the ground has been frozen very hard here, very unusually so for this country; and now the post just coming out; makes the track bad enough. Last Wednesday two freight trains came in collision just below Carbondale. It was a mighty crash. No fault of the track - this wasn't a sharp curve in the woods; the men jumped off uninjured, or only bruised somewhat. The Engines almost a total loss. Many loaded cars, freight & c piled in one absolute smash; I supposed the loss would be fifty thousand dollars but it turns out all the smashed cars on one train were coal, only twenty dollars per car and on the other Iron, not much injured. So the loss is only twenty five or thirty thousand. But it was a mighty wreck, took a day or two to get a new track laid around it so that trains could get by. The Men who had been at work there were only on their way back yesterday, when the track gave way & the train ran off the track just above here. That was before Noon yesterday; but by a little after Midnight

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 7 Folder 179

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3026px × 3867px 66.99 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_179_007_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJRW

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