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Chicago, Sept 24th 1888 H.B. Stone Esq unclear Mgr CB.+2. R.R. City Dear Sir unclear D.C. reports as follows for Sept 19th, 20th, + 21st. Galesburg, Wed. Sept 19th 88 At 7 A.M. Strauburg came to my room and told me there was a wreck in the C.B.+2. yards east of town, a freight had run into the rear end of another freight train we went to the wreck which was a short ways Northeast of Main St. an engineer was killed, we also saw two bodies badly burned laying on top of a car loaded with lumber, they were apparently tramps and could not be identified. Ed Rogers, Herb Updike, Lea Best, L Staur and several others shortly after made their appearances, they laughed and joked and said it served the Company right, that it would never happened if the old men were back. All the strikers appeared to be in a happy mood, Rogers said the County would have to bury the two tramps, and that the wreck would cost the Company thousands of dollars, We