Mount Union borough
The 1917 Wreck, Buckled Wheels
The wheels buckled and intertwined, metal folded like paper under the force of the collision. This is the physical evidence of the impact that killed about twenty people in seconds.
Photo from page_history (Facebook archive, 2019-09-17)
Nothing further from the county histories. The six histories held here end in 1913 and this story belongs to 2019, so there is no passage in them that bears on it. Rather than attach an unrelated page and let it look like corroboration, this story stands on the sources listed below.
Sources
- page_history 2019-09-17_2204181089711714.jpg
- Photograph credit: Historic Mount Union Facebook page
Checked 2026-08-01 · Historic Mount Union collection