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On the morning of 4 July, 1912, a rear-end train collision occurred three miles east of Corning, N.Y. The wreck caused the deaths of 39 people and injured 88 others. Among those killed was John Tait, who was traveling from his home in Brooklyn to join his wife and young son in Niagara Falls. At the time of his death, Tait was known as one of the most dangerous soccer forwards in the Eastern Uni...