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Tested · wrecks print at their true locations only
No wreck at Lakeville was found in any carrier searched — and the searches were the ones that find the county's wrecks where they actually happened. The county's worst stands in Howard's own accidents section: the Lake Shore night express wreck at Springbrook culvert on the night of 27 June 1859, between South Bend and Mishawaka — South Bend's and Mishawaka's ground, pointer only. The Wabash's catastrophe on this corridor was at Kingsbury, in La Porte County: on 23 September 1893 passenger train No. 55, second section, ran through an open switch into a standing freight; eleven were killed and the boiler exploded (Crawfordsville Daily Journal, 23 September 1893, via Hoosier State Chronicles) — the same year the Fourth District opened, one county west, and not Lakeville's. The diesel era's local entries are likewise neighbours': on 30 January 1951 the Pennsy derailed fourteen cars at Culver, near the State Road 17 crossing — Studebaker autos and parts out of South Bend, a broken rail the cause (museum caption); on 3 February 1962 a westbound New York Central freight rear-ended another just east of Walkerton, four crewmen injured (museum caption). Lakeville's only rail incident of record is not a wreck at all but the 1906 safe-blowing in the depot article above. The negative is printed at its searched strength; the town paper's file — this build's standing unsearched settler for items of this class — could still move it, and the want rides with the pass's gaps.
Principal sources: Howard (1907), Ch. VI §III §6; Crawfordsville Daily Journal, 23 September 1893 (first-hand newspaper, via Hoosier State Chronicles); Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum captions (first-hand, at their true locations).