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SEARCHES NAMED · TWO NEARBY EVENTS AT THEIR TRUE PLACES
No wreck, collision, fatal derailment, or fatal grade-crossing accident at North Liberty or in Liberty Township was found in the ICC accident-report indexes, in the Kingsbury-identified accounts identified through the La Porte County record, or in the web searches run (which named North Liberty and Liberty Township expressly against the wreck vocabulary). The negative stands at search strength, and its settler is named in the gaps (G-W1T-10 class): the North Liberty News on microfilm, the one local carrier unsearched in this section — a small-town wreck is exactly the kind of event only the town paper would have carried. Nothing in what follows is printed as a North Liberty event.
Two nearby disasters touch the town only at their true places. On 23 September 1893, a few months after the Wabash passed through, an eastbound Wabash train collided with a Lake Shore & Michigan Southern train three miles from Kingsbury, in La Porte County, killing eleven; the period press machinery (Wire, The Inter Ocean, 24 September 1893) carried "passenger lists and physicians summoned," and the surgeons who came to Kingsbury came from Chicago, South Bend, Plymouth — and North Liberty, among the towns named: the town's doctors riding to the county's worst early railroad wreck is North Liberty's only documented place in the wreck record, at Kingsbury's address, not its own. And on 3 February 1962 a New York Central conductor was killed when a freight train standing on a siding near Walkerton was struck head-on by another Walkerton freight: that collision is Walkerton's record (its wreck article carries it), printed here at pointer strength only, to keep it out of this town's column.
Principal sources: Wire, The Inter Ocean, 24 September 1893 (newspapers.com clip, snippet strength); the La Porte County record of the Kingsbury wreck; the Walkerton build's wreck article (pointer).