The Way It Was

100 years ago:

Cattle and hogs killed

The Clinton Democrat has the following report of the Katy wreck which occurred Tuesday morning:

The heavy stock train was eastbound under full headway when the engine tender left the track, the forward trucks pulled out and the tender plunged into the earth, where it acted as a bumper for the rest of the train. The merchandise cars following were wrecked into splinters, a coal car left the track, three lumber cars were upturned and the first five cars of the live stock section of the train, plunging into this mass of wreckage, were tossed on either side.

Four cars of cattle and one car of hogs were involved, and not less than 40 cattle and 25 hogs were killed outright or injured so badly as to compel killing them.

75 years ago:

Plans are made for holding the fair

The board of directors of the Vernon County Youth Fair Association held a meeting in Nevada Monday afternoon of this week. It was voted to hold a fair and the dates were set for Sept. 9-12.

The fair this year will be the first since 1928 and will also be the indicator by which the fair association will determine next January if there will be any more Vernon County fairs.

50 years ago:

Car stolen Sunday in Deerfield recovered

The car belonging to Morris McConnaughey, which was stolen from in front of his home in Deerfield Sunday night, was recovered yesterday afternoon in El Dorado, Kan.

Outside of a flat tire the automobile appeared to be undamaged.

It is possible that the theft of the McConnaughey car is connected with the abandonment of a stolen car in Fort Scott, and a second car -- from Fort Scott -- which was abandoned in Deerfield.