60th AUCTION - day 3

Desaster Mail: 1900, 20 October, USA, Railway accident, stationery envelope Wash

Desaster Mail

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1900, 20 October, USA, Railway accident, stationery envelope Washington 2c. pink used from "Omaha, Nebr., 16.10. with ms. endorsement "Damaged by water Mail car and baggage car fell in river at Eddy, 6 miles west of Missoula a ton of mail went in river. Mont 10-20-00 West bound N.P. with home seekers" on front. The 1st section of westbound train no.3 was knocked out of the rails due to a boulder slide. All mail and baggage cars and the engine were piled up in a heap across the tracks.

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Condition: postal stationery