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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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rlvejt t^^t*- iFAMQUS COACH DESTROYED /Carriasf W»» M«de BetorjO X.t^- j colna Time. j NEW CASTLE, Pa., Feb, 3.—TheTiietoric Lincoln coach in which;President Lincoln Is said to have rid-ii!den to Washington for his inaugura-^tlon, was destroyed in a fire at Sharps-^,vlUe, Pa. It was the sole passengei^;«qulpment of the little gharpsvlllft;Irailroad, running between that townjand Washington Junction. It was(jcovered with sheetlron, put on beforeLincoln made his famous ride and waS A recent dispatch from Minneapolistells of the burning of the Lincolnfuneral car. the car which carried thebody of the war president from Wash-in^on 0 Springfield. This car. which^as used also as the private car ofPresident Lincoln durinj. the war. waspurchased by Thomas Lowry s x yearsaeo »nd taken to a Minneapolis sub-urb. A few days ago a praine fireBwept over ten blocks of ground inthis suburb, igniting the hietorlc relicand burned it Into a mass of charred;wood and iron, /f// ^^% -. \) >-^ Jji^
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1 \i k \\ t \R I. l.iou^lK l.odv ofmiIl^rl.L■M.^.U f.om N\ .sl,i„„l„1 \pnl, ISn, n-ciillv dosliONcd b> fii. ,t MiiiiK^poli.^u Ik re it li lU boon kopl iiiiLO Ibb. ^ -^m^ . lilNCOLlV COACH BUUNS New Castle, Pa.,Feb. 4.—The his-toric Lincoln c6acl\ In Which Presi-dent Lincoln rode to Washington forhis inaugural was destroyed in a fireyesterday at Sht>rnsvillo, jPa.^3B SHOOK HANDS WITH LINCOLN. St. Petersburg, Fla., Dec. 25—(JF)—Colonel Maximilian Brueckman-Is 91 but the time he shook hands■with Abraham Lincoln is fresh inhis memory. It wa_3 in 1864. inPhiladelphisL. ~ \ ^ ^ iT _ Lincoln Car Burns The Lincoln funeral car, the carwhich in April, 1865, carried thebody of Abraham Lincoln fromWashington to its final restingplace in Springfield, 111., is a massj of charred wood and iron. The car,I which has been visited by hun-I dreds of thousands of Americans,: was destroyed by a prairie firewhich swept through ten blocks in Columbia Heights. The car waspurchase

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