File:Pennsylvania Railroad Train Wreck at Quequacommissicong Creek on October 4, 1877.jpg

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Deutsch: "One of the greatest disasters in the history of the local division of the Pennsylvania Railroad occurred here on the evening of October 4, 1877.

There had been very heavy rains, which converted the Quequacommissicong creek into a mighty, raging torrent. The wild, rushing stream undermined and washed away a part of the stone culvert, at the creek’s mouth, over which the “Oswego and Philadelphia Express” had to pass.

When the train reached this point, the locomotive No. 142, plunged into the abyss, with the baggage and two passenger coaches following."

Citation by MILFORD, N.J. By C. L. Melick Written in 1934

See also: Kathleen Phillips Sciarello: Early Life and Traditions of Holland, N.J. 1916-1923. Page 196.
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