On July 30, 1896, Atlantic City suffered one of the worst railroad disasters in the city’s history.
The site was just west of the present resort, on the wetlands, where the tracks of two competing railroads, the West Jersey Railroad and the Atlantic City Railroad, crossed each other in a giant X. At this point a control tower, with an operator, was supposed to act as a traffic cop and decide which train had the right-of-way.
That day, about 250 people, members of the Improved Order of Red Men fraternal organization and their families who had…
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