Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:27:25 -0700 Subject: =?US-ASCII?Q?Re:_"Rio_Train_Wreck"_program_on_Sunday,_October_27?= From: dlb56 <dlb56@aol.com> Message-ID: <B0063880046@listserve.uwec.edu>
am i on a list to be getting all these. i do not live in wi. so wont be attending.Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: JANET IRENE SEYMOUR <janet.seymour@wisconsinhistory.org> Date: 9/30/19 1:06 PM (GMT-08:00) To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu Subject: "Rio Train Wreck" program on Sunday, October 27
Sunday 27 October 2019 at 3:00 pm
Rio High School Commons
411 Church Street Rio WI 53960
Rio Train Wreck Talk by Steve Gilbert
Former Rio High School history teacher, Steve Gilbert, is speaking about the Rio Train Wreck of October 1886. He has been researching this topic for many years. The research is ongoing even in his retirement. Student projects during his teaching career
also contributed to the research.
At the time it happened, this train wreck was one of the worst in the country. It was covered in the New York Times as well as many local newspapers. In the middle of the night with a switch left in the wrong position, the train derailed causing overturned
cars and a fire. With the wreck being just east Rio, the village fire wagon was too far away for timely help. Many people died. There is a common grave in the local cemetery in Rio. A court trial followed. Much information has been collected, but many questions
remain to be answered.
If you have an interest in history, please join us for this Rio Area Historical Society sponsored event.
Janet Seymour
Interim Director of Outreach
Wisconsin Historical Society
c/o Department of History, UW-Eau Claire
105 Garfield Avenue Eau Claire WI 54701
715-836-2250 (O)
janet.seymour@wisconsinhistory.org
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