. Die Ermordung von Abraham Lincoln . Die Columbia Heights Land Company ist auf der Straße von 37th und Quincy.bevor das Feuer ausbrannte, verschaffte es 10 Stadtblöcke, darunter das Landbüro und das Lincoln-Auto. .XugeSwanson, Sohn des Postmeisters, orga-nized mehrere Jungen in einem Versuch, den Trainer zu retten. Ian McKnight, 12 Jahre, und Burdette Whitman, 14 Jahre^^ suf-fered bums während des Kampfes. Das Fahrzeug befand sich in einem Schuppen, und als die Feuerwehrleute erkannten, dass das Gebäude zum Scheitern verurteilt war, war^zu spät, um die Ilicrelic zu retten. Der Schuppen wurde zerstört und der Zustand unreparabel beschädigt. Als Teil von

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. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln . Columbia Heights Land Company pro-perty at the comer of 37th and Quincy.Before the fire burned out, it consumedroughly 10 city blocks, including theland office and the Lincoln car. .XugeSwanson, son of the postmaster, orga-nized several boys in an attempt tosave the coach. Ian McKnight, age 12, and Burdette Whitman, age 14^^ suf-fered bums during the struggle. The carwas inside a shed, and by^the time thefire-fighters realized the building wasdoomed, it was too late to rescue ilicrelic. The shed was destroyed and thecar damaged beyond repair. As part of the considerable news cov-erage of the event, the March 19. 1911.Sunday Tribune and the Journal report-ed that the erstwhile manager of theland company. Edmund G. Walton, waspermitting the public to take whateversouvenirs of the Lincoln car lhe> could.scrounge from the debris. Hundreds ofpeople visited the site, and many car-ried away pieces of twisted metal andchunks of charred wood. 58 CIVIL WAR TIMES ILLUSTRATED ■ March/ApMll995. Several authentic mementos of therailroad cars destruction survived. TheLincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois, owns a piece of wood from the wreck.An article in the Minneapolis Star inMarch 1964 related that Maury Ostran-der, then an associate professor at theUniversity of Minnesota, had been asmall boy at the time of the fire. He wasstill wearing a tie clasp he had madefrom a piece of window molding recov- ered from the ruin of the funeral car. Nodoubt dozens of other relics of the carare still kept in Minnesota homes, though few of the roughly two millioncurrent Twin Cities-area residents arefamiliar with the history and fate of theLincoln car. Tom Lowrys name, on the otherhand, is still familiar there. A street inMinneapolis bears his name, and a stat-ue of Lowry was dedicated in 1915. In-

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