Rising Tensions

ID: 1633 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: E. C. Blomeyer
This file appears in: Camp MacArthur Troop Train Derailment

Spectators survey the wreckage, likely wondering at the cause of such a severe wreck. With tensions rising around the country in relation to US involvement in World War I, it is unsurprising that many immediately jumped to the conclusion that the train or track had been sabotaged. 

This file appears in: Camp MacArthur Troop Train Derailment

By Geoff Hunt
On June 18, 1918, a troop train carrying soldiers from Camp MacArthur’s 80th Field Artillery left East Waco and traveled eastward on the Cotton Belt line, heading toward a southern training camp.…