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Description 1882 Harper's Weekly cartoon by Thomas Nast commenting on reports that a recent deadly train wreck was in part the result of one of a group of drunken politicians on board pulling the emergency brake because they thought it would be funny, stopping their train, which another one crashed into ten minutes later.
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