by Darren McMannis | Jun 17, 2016 | Train
Authorities say a train has struck and killed a man in central Kansas. The Newton Kansan reports that the man was killed Friday morning in Newton. Police say investigators are working to identify the man who had no identification with him when he died. The Kansas...
by Darren McMannis | Jan 18, 2004 | Roadside Memorials, Train
Woman dies in train wreck A Newton woman was killed Sunday afternoon (January 18, 2004) when her vehicle collided with a train east of Halstead. Marsha Thompson, 35, was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck. The accident happened about 2:15 p.m. at the railroad...
by Darren McMannis | Mar 19, 1999 | Train
SW 24th west of Anderson Road – Newton / Wichita man killed in train wreck Investigators believe a 64-year-old Wichita man killed Wednesday morning in a truck-train accident was talking on a radio in the seconds just prior to the crash. Harvey County Sheriff...
by Darren McMannis | Jun 23, 1989 | Train
The accident was the first fatality at the intersection since 1989, when a rural Newton man, Steve Burton, was killed in a truck-train collision. (By Bill Wilson for The Newton Kansan, Newton Kansas. March 19, 1999).
by Darren McMannis | Dec 29, 1959 | Train
South Depot Street at Colorado Street – Burrton / Car Hit By Train, Mail Carrier Killed Burrton, Kansas, December 28 – A 73-year-old substitute mail carrier was killed today when his car slipped off the railroad station platform in Burrton and was struck...
by Darren McMannis | Jun 19, 1945 | Train
Crash Kills 1 J.E. Tennant, 67, pumper for the Olson Oil Co., was killed at 8:56 a.m. Tuesday when his car was struck by a Santa Fe passenger train at a crossing three miles west of Burrton. In a similar accident at Strandberg’s Corner east of Hutchinson Monday...
