The following article appeared in The Raymond News on September 11, 1958:
A Wabash fast passenger train struck Lewis Lessman’s car on the main street crossing Monday afternoon and threw it into the depot on fire. No one was hurt. When Mr. Lessman’s car stalled on the tracks, Charles Warnsing rushed to help him out of the car while P.M. Greenfield, Wabash agent, hurried down the tracks to flag the southbound passenger No. 11 due through here at 4:20 p.m., but there was not enough time to stop it.
The car was tossed into the depot and exploded, throwing
flaming gasoline on the wooden structure and breaking several windows. The
Raymond fireman extinguished the fire quickly before any great damage was done
to the building. As one can see, there is very little left of the car.
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