Mill Creek borough
The wreck at Mill Creek, January 1871
From the newspaper the county was reading at the time, on Mill Creek borough. The Huntingdon Journal of 11 January 1871 carried this item in its column of local news. It is printed below exactly as the page reads, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made: the paper's compositor set "traiu" for train and the scanner has read "debrie" for debris. Nothing has been rewritten, summarised or added to.
On Saturday last, owing to the breaking of axle, a traiu of stock freight cars was thrown from the track at Mill Creek and some eighteen cars de stroyed. Trains both east and west were delayed for several hours until the debrie was removed.Huntingdon Journal, 11 January 1871, p. 3 · character 0 of the scanned text
Checked 2026-09-01 · Mined from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive
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