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Pleasant Preston “Pleas” Hart

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Pleasant Preston “Pleas” Hart

Birth
Marion County, Iowa, USA
Death
25 Apr 1922 (aged 41–42)
Girard, Crawford County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Pella, Marion County, Iowa, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.413517, Longitude: -92.9288025
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Fort Scott, Kans., April 25. – One was killed and several injured when a Kansas City-Oklahoma City passenger train on the Frisco route crashed into the rear end of a train carrying a circus near Girard today.

Pleas Hart, who was riding on the circus train, was killed.

The circus train was on the main line just ready to take the siding when struck by the passenger.

Mr. hart is a son of James Hart, north of Pella, and usually spends the winter season at his home here. His body is expected here for burial.

[Pella Chronicle, The (Pella, IA) 27 Apr 1922, p.1]
Fort Scott, Kans., April 25. – One was killed and several injured when a Kansas City-Oklahoma City passenger train on the Frisco route crashed into the rear end of a train carrying a circus near Girard today.

Pleas Hart, who was riding on the circus train, was killed.

The circus train was on the main line just ready to take the siding when struck by the passenger.

Mr. hart is a son of James Hart, north of Pella, and usually spends the winter season at his home here. His body is expected here for burial.

[Pella Chronicle, The (Pella, IA) 27 Apr 1922, p.1]


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