Mattoon
Central Illinois Traction
Co.
August 30, 1907 wreck with
passengers travelling to and from the county fair. The wreck killed
12 and injured 60. (different accounts give 18 dead, 50 injured)
It was the worst wreck of its kind on an interuban line at that time.
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