Dave
I’ve found an account of the shooting in the Omaha Daily Bee of 27 June 1897
Omaha daily
bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, June 27, 1897, Part I, Page 8, Image 8 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress (loc.gov)
A report in the same newspaper the following day
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, June 28, 1897, Page 8, Image 8 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress (loc.gov) states that the man who was shot after leaving the train (G R Pond of Corning, Iowa) was a stockman. Apparently a number of tramps
had tried to take his valise but he resisted and was shot. Six men were arrested.
Rupert Gamlen
I have two questions about an incident that happened in Chalco, Neb. In late June of 1897. A passenger on a train referred to in news articles as the Burlington fast
freight (sometimes called a stock train but that definitely had at least some boxcars) was shot during an attempted robbery as he got off the train.
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If a person had a pass to ride a freight train, where would he or she ride? Would a freight train have a specific place for passengers?
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For a train called a fast freight, this particular train stopped in Lincoln, then again in Ashland, and again in Chalco, then in Omaha. Why so many stops? I would have thought a fast freight would
have been straight through to a destination.
Thanks for any help. I’m pretty ignorant about trains—working on true crime. Thanks!
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