NEW JERSEY DISASTER.
DEATH ROLL NOW 42.
(BY CABMS—PWSSS ASSOCIATION— COPtaiOHT,) (Szwur "Sun" Service.) ' -
NEW YORK, June 17.
The number of victims...of the.Hackettstown (New Jersey) railway disaster who have* succumbed to their injuries is increasing. The death roll is now 42. The train was a. special with 182 Germans aboard.
Ono man, who was pinned under tho debris, offered a rescuer a roll of noteß to kill him: [Tho wreck was the result of a storm. Lightning twisted the rails and rain undermined them. The passengers were mostly aliens, who intended $o sail for Europe. They were asleep when the crash came, and fought madly in'the steam-filled cars.]
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18412, 19 June 1925, Page 9
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