On September 21, 1910, at 12:15 PM, tragedy struck Wells County, Indiana.
Two interurban electric railroad cars collided approximately one-half mile north of the small village of Kingsland (wreck site located at N 40 degrees 50 minutes 14 seconds - W 085 degrees 10 minutes 35 seconds) in Wells County, Indiana.
Curving tracks, a woods nearby on the wrong side of the curve, the high speeds of the cars, and misunderstood orders (or worse, disobeyed orders or pure negligence) were the ingredients for this catastrophe.
Forty-one persons died as a direct result of the Kingsland Wreck. Six persons survived the crash. One man died within two years of the wreck, his demise probably hastened from the injuries he sustained that fateful day.
This website is committed to be a memorial to those lost in this tragedy, and to those whose lives were forever changed by this horrific event.
