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The night the railroad killed its passengers does not exist in Osceola's record, and the negative was tested at the strengths the register named — the county histories, the Interstate Commerce Commission's accident-report series, and the press file as reachable open-web. The ICC series, searched on this town's name, returns exactly one Osceola wreck, and it is the namesake trap this build meets everywhere: the rear-end collision of December 25, 1925 on the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway at Osceola, Arkansas, one employee killed — another state's town, not taken. For Osceola, Indiana, no passenger wreck, no inquiry and no casualty list appears in any source reached. The single rail death the record does carry here is a person, not a wreck: the Methodist minister H. M. The corridor's great wrecks stand at the boundary, on other ground, and are printed as elsewhere: the head-on collision of Michigan Central and New York Central passenger trains at Porter, Indiana, on the night of February 27, 1921, with the coroner's toll fixed at forty-two; and the Hammond circus-train wreck of June 22, 1918, at Ivanhoe interlocking, where a sleeping troop-train engineer ran into the Hagenbeck–Wallace circus train and eighty-six died — the deadliest wreck on this railroad family in this state, on Lake County ground. The New York Central main line ran through Osceola for a century and a half without, on the record reached, killing its passengers here; the road corridor (U.S. 20, the Lincoln Highway) likewise returns no mass-casualty event on this ground. Verdict: tested negative, with the county's wreck record printed at its boundary.
Sources: ICC Bureau of Safety report, accident at Osceola, Arkansas, December 25, 1925 (the namesake result, excluded). Contemporary Associated Press reporting of the Porter wreck, February–March 1921 (toll forty-two). ICC/Indiana Public Service Commission investigation of the Ivanhoe (Hammond) wreck, June 22, 1918 (eighty-six deaths). This build's Notable People (Lamport, March 25, 1892) and Transportation (the main-line corridor, whole).