. L'assassinio di Abraham Lincoln . Columbia Heights Land Company pro-perty al comer di 37th e Quincy.Before il fuoco bruciò, consumedroughly 10 blocchi della città, compreso l'ufficio di Theland e l'automobile di Lincoln. XugeSwanson, figlio del padrone di posta, ha fatto nidilizzare diversi ragazzi nel tentativo di salvare il coach. Ian McKnight, 12 anni, e Burdette Whitman, 14 anni^^, hanno ferito le gomme durante la lotta. Il carwas all'interno di un capannone, e quando i combattenti del fuoco realizzarono il wasdoomed dell'edificio, era troppo tardi per salvare ilicrelic. Il capannone è stato distrutto e lafar danneggiato in modo non riparabile. Come parte di

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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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