Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
6 years ago
Oct. 6 1955
Sixty-five aboard airliner perished this morning in crash on Medicine Bow peak
One of the worst disasters in aviation history occurred this morning about 7:00 o'clock, when a United Airlines New York to Los Angeles plane with 65 people aboard crashed on the east slope of Medicine Bow peak in the Snowy Range.
Local men who were part of a rescue party from the sheriff's office in Rawlins, said the big ship crashed into the face of the almost sheer rock cliff about a half mile north of Lake Marie, and about half way between the lake and the site of the former Marble Top l...
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