60th AUCTION - day 3

Desaster Mail: 1897, 24 October, USA, Railway accident, cover from Tupper Lake 2

Desaster Mail

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1897, 24 October, USA, Railway accident, cover from Tupper Lake 23.10.97 to New York with label "Post Office New York NY October 25 1897 / This piece of mail matter was damaged in an accident on the N.Y.S.&R.R.R. near Garrison, N.Y. on October, 24, 1897 C.Van Cott, Postmaster" plus postmarks 25.10. on reverse, adhesive washed off. Train no. 46 of the New York, Weehawken and Hudson River Railroad fell into the Hudson river when the retaining wall of the rail track collapsed on 24 Oct. 1897 near Garrison, 50 miles north of N.Y.

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Condition: Cover