Ward, in Boulder County, Colorado. [ca. 1899]

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Ward, in Boulder County, Colorado. [ca. 1899]

View of upper Ward showing a group of five men and two women posed with mines and buildings behind them. Mine dumps are numbered 1 through 5, but not named. Also a view of Ward looking south, with the railroad tracks in the foreground.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7471231

Boulder Public Library

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Gembrini, Sam, 1862-1945

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Two locomotives of the C&N railroad were swept off the tracks by a snow slide and landed at the bottom of a gulch at Camp Frances. The engines were hitched double-header, bucking the snow so as to open the road when the slide occurred. Four of the crew were killed in the accident. From the description of Railroad wreck on Grassy Mountain. 1901 April 18. (Boulder Public Library). WorldCat record id: 427378066 ...