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Updated 30-03-2002
Severed leg recovered
700 miles from crash site
A human leg found in
Harvey has been identified as that of a man who was killed with his wife in a
train-vehicle collision about 700 miles to the south, in Mississippi,
authorities said.
Workers for the
Illinois Central-Canadian National Railroad found the leg Tuesday afternoon and
suspected it was from a freight train that had recently arrived in the Chicago
area and had been involved in the fatal train accident near Yazoo City, Miss.,
on Monday, authorities said.
Officials of the Cook
County medical examiner’s office, with the assistance of Mississippi
authorities, identified the leg as that of Max Twiner, 69, who was killed with
his wife Virginia, 68, when a freight train struck their passenger van at a
grade crossing.
The husband was thrown from the van and was struck by the train, authorities
said. A boot recovered with the leg in Harvey matched that of a boot found on
the man’s body in Mississippi.
By Veronica Gonzalez
Tribune staff reporter
Published March 27, 2002, 12:56 PM CST
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