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Wrecks, Tested: None on This Ground

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No wreck at Roseland or in Clay Township was found, and the famous wrecks near this ground are all somewhere else. The spans searched were the ICC's Investigations of Railroad Accidents 1911–1993 index, the full text of CERA Bulletin 104, and the general press record on the line names. The two wrecks most likely to be imported into this section by mistake are placed here so they are not: the great South Bend train wreck of 27 June 1859, on the Michigan Southern, killed 42 at a site close to the present intersection of Ironwood Road and Lincoln Way West, between Mishawaka and South Bend, south of the river — not Clay Township; and the one ICC-investigated South Bend wreck of the interurban era, the Grand Trunk Western derailment of 28 April 1932, in which a passenger train's second car fell off a retaining wall between High and Marietta Streets in the city, killing two employees — South Bend city ground, on the line the article above excludes from the township. The rival South Shore's head-on collision of June 1909, ten killed, was in Porter County. The leg prints the negative at the strength of those spans.

Sources: ICC Bureau of Safety report, June 7, 1932 (ROSAP dot_45378); the 1859 wreck's site record; CERA Bulletin 104 full text, searched.

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Source: Wrecks, Tested: None on This Ground, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/roseland/railroads/wrecks-tested-none-on-this-ground/