File:Wreck of "20th C." LCCN2014690208.jpg

DescriptionWreck of "20th C." LCCN2014690208.jpg	English: Title: Wreck of "20th C." Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Date	Taken on 13 March 1912
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• 20th Century Goes Into River. Passengers, Caught In Deluged Cars, Escape Apparently Certain Death. New York; March 14, 1912. The seven-car first section of the Twentieth Century Limited flier from Chicago to New York, shooting southward at high speed to make up for lost time, struck a broken rail at a curve at Bowman's Cut, a mile south of Hyde Park and five miles north of Poughkeepsie, at 8:55 o'clock yesterday morning.
  

https://www.nytimes.com/1912/03/14/archives/20th-century-goes-into-river-passengers-caught-in-deluged-cars.html

• Urges Roads To Cut Speed For Safety. Public Service Board Finds The Hyde Park Wreck Due Largely To Speeding In Winter. Albany, New York; July 2, 1912. The accident to the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited at Hyde Park on March 13, 1912, was due to an irregularity in super-elevation of the outer rail, or what is more commonly known as a low spot in the track, and not to a broken rail, as was generally supposed, according to the finding of the Public Service Commission of the Second District, after a most thorough investigation. … The accident to the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited at Hyde Park on March 13, 1912, was due to an irregularity in super-elevation of the outer rail, or what is more commonly known as a low spot in the track, and not to a broken rail, as was generally supposed, according to the finding of the Public Service Commission of the Second District, after a most thorough investigation.
  

https://www.nytimes.com/1912/07/29/archives/urges-roads-to-cut-speed-for-safety-public-service-board-finds-the.html

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