Fatal railway collision on the Long Island Railroad, Jamaica, New York, August 28, 1865, artist's impression

Scanned by

Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College

Scan date

07/31/2013

Notes

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 29, 2015.

Depicted ContentOutside New York City, two passenger trains on the Long Island Railroad collide head-on killing five people

Image type

engraving

Original caption

The Last Railroad Slaughter - Collision of trains on the Long Island Railroad, near Jamaica, Monday, August 28. - From a sketch by Mr. M.J. Phelan, a passenger on the train from Greenport, L.I.

Source citation

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 16, 1865, p. 401.