Today In Wyoming's History: September 27: 1923 Thirty railroad passengers were killed when a CB&Q train wrecked at the Cole Creek Bridge, which had been washed out due to a flood, in Natrona County. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
It was a horrific event.
Flooding had taken out the railroad bridge over Cole Creek near Casper Wyoming, which was unknown to the railroad. The night train to Denver approached the bridge on a blind curve, and the headlights detected its absence too late to stop the train. Half of the people on the train were killed.
It's the worst disaster in Wyoming's railroad history.
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