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The other dying man was left at Hightstown, 3 miles beyond where the disaster happened...
- ↑ "Stock Certificate Signed by Inventor of "T" Rail, Robert L. Stevens". Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
- ↑ Baer, Christopher T. (2015). "A General Chronology of the PRR. 1833" (PDF). PRRTHS. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
- ↑ "10 Railroad and Steamboat disasters". Commodore Robert F. Stockton, 1795–1866. Cambria Press. p. 317. ISBN 978-1-62196-961-7.