‘Plan For High School Addition Is Approved’

These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons.

100 YEARS AGO

‘Burlington has a wreck’

Two Engines Ditched and Several Cars

Smashed Up in Yards

February 28, 1913

At 5:40 Saturday morning a wreck occurred in the Burlington about one hundred feet east of the house track switch. A southbound ore train, a double-header, became uncontrollable because of frosty rails and ran into a southbound extra freight. The latter could have made it to safety upon hearing the warning whistle but for the unfor...