The wreck record the record keeps: an arm in 1863, a minister killed in 1892, two men killed in 1967 — and no mass-casualty wreck at Osceola, Indiana, in the federal file

The wreck test was run against the road's record, and what it keeps for this ground is a casualty list, not a catastrophe: 1863: William C. Smith, the Lake Shore's new agent at Osceola, lost his right arm coupling cars that year — the station man's own injury, carried in his Chapman biography (pp. 837–838) and in the parent fragment; he held the agency, five years excepted, for the rest of Chapman's account. 25 March 1892: the Rev. H. M. Lamport — of the Lamport family that kept the village store and its post office — was killed in a railroad accident at Osceola, a single death carried in Notable People's record (printed there as a refused fame claim, at that strength). 16 December 1967: the crossing collision decided in Cheek v. Hamlin (item 4 above): a westbound Penn Central freight at 70 miles an hour struck a Ford Ranchero on the town's westbound main track, carrying it several hundred feet and killing Robert Eugene Cheek and Jerry D. Hancock — two deaths, fully documented in a reported appellate opinion. Beyond those three entries, the federal wreck file returns nothing for this town: the Interstate Commerce Commission's investigated-accident reports, searched for Osceola, return the other Osceolas — a rear-end freight collision at Osceola, Arkansas, on 25 December 1925 (one employee killed), and a passenger derailment near Osceola, Wisconsin, on 22 March 1939 (one killed, eight injured) — both printed here as the namesake traps they are, so no future telling imports them. No ICC-investigated wreck, and no wreck of any size beyond the three entries above, stands in the record reached for Osceola, Indiana; the Tribune file, not reachable at page strength, is the settler for any smaller derailment the federal file never took up, and the record prints at exactly the size dug.

Sources: Chapman (1880), pp. 837–838 (Smith); Notable People (Lamport, 25 March 1892); Cheek v. Hamlin, 277 N.E.2d 620 (Ind. Ct. App. 1972); Interstate Commerce Commission, Bureau of Safety investigation reports (ROSAP / National Transportation Library) — Osceola, Ark. (25 December 1925) and Osceola, Wis., Investigation No. 2340 (22 March 1939), searched and read November 2026.