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Article: 2 Crew Members Killed In Colo. Train Derailment
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 21, 1996
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LEADVILLE, Colo. A freight train derailed this morning in the
mountains north of here, killing two crew members and spilling acid
onto a highway.
An engineer and a student engineer were killed and a third crew
member was injured and taken to a hospital in Vail, said Mike
Furtney, Southern Pacific spokesman in San Francisco.
Two tank cars containing about 27,000 gallons of sulfuric acid -
the acid used in car batteries - broke open, but it wasn't clear how
much of the highly caustic liquid had drained out, Furtney said.
It was the fifth major train accident in the United States this
month.
The acid was "spilling down the mountainside and across Highway
24," said Kim Andre, ...