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135 years ago From the May 30, 1890 edition of the Silverton Standard: A SAD ACCIDENT.

A sad accident happened in Durango about five o’clock last evening. Bob Hurley, while coupling a box car to a baggage car, was crushed between them and killed instantly. He was well known in Silverton and to all travelers on the road. Last winter he was braking for Conductor Simpson between here and Durango and a…