Colonel John W Lowe, American soldier Finish:Float frame Collisions were all too common

Collisions were all too common in the 1870s and Punch often featured cartoons about the perils of railway travel to emphasise its dissatisfaction with the lack of real investment in new technology

the latter in the shape of a lion's head

Philip Smith

8 January 871

Segrave took the giant Sunbeam to Daytona Beach

Colonel John W Lowe, American soldier Finish:Float frame Collisions were all too commonColonel John W Lowe, American soldier, (1872). Lowe, of the 12th Ohio Infantry, was killed at Carnifex Ferry om 10 September 10 1861. Engraving from A Child's History of the United States by John Gilmary Shea, published by Hess and McDavitt, (New York, 1872).