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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral rites and ceremonies Hearses (Vehicles) Railroad cars Railroad trains
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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Columbia Heights Land Company pro-perty at the comer of 37th and Quincy.Before the fire burned out, it consumedroughly 10 city blocks, including theland office and the Lincoln car. .XugeSwanson, son of the postmaster, orga-nized several boys in an attempt tosave the coach. Ian McKnight, age 12,and Burdette Whitman, age 14^^ suf-fered bums during the struggle. The carwas inside a shed, and by^the time thefire-fighters realized the building wasdoomed, it was too late to rescue ilicrelic. The shed was destroyed and thecar damaged beyond repair. As part of the considerable news cov-erage of the event, the March 19. 1911.Sunday Tribune and the Journal report-ed that the erstwhile manager of theland company. Edmund G. Walton, waspermitting the public to take whateversouvenirs of the Lincoln car lhe> could.scrounge from the debris. Hundreds ofpeople visited the site, and many car-ried away pieces of twisted metal andchunks of charred wood. 58 CIVIL WAR TIMES ILLUSTRATED ■ March/ApMll995
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Several authentic mementos of therailroad cars destruction survived. TheLincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois,owns a piece of wood from the wreck.An article in the Minneapolis Star inMarch 1964 related that Maury Ostran-der, then an associate professor at theUniversity of Minnesota, had been asmall boy at the time of the fire. He wasstill wearing a tie clasp he had madefrom a piece of window molding recov- ered from the ruin of the funeral car. Nodoubt dozens of other relics of the carare still kept in Minnesota homes,though few of the roughly two millioncurrent Twin Cities-area residents arefamiliar with the history and fate of theLincoln car. Tom Lowrys name, on the otherhand, is still familiar there. A street inMinneapolis bears his name, and a stat-ue of Lowry was dedicated in 1915. In-

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