HEAVY DEATH ROLL IN TRAIN DISASTER
NEW YORK, Jan. 1. AL least 12 aad possibly 60 koliday passengers were killed and mauy injured when a train ranuned the rear of another near Otterville, Missouri, today. The trains were the two sections of the Missouri I'aeiJic Lines express "Missourian" on the night run from , St. Louis to Kansas City. They were ploughing their way tlirough a blinding snowstonn behinil schedule ,wlien the second seetion of the train bored tlirough all but four feet of the rear Pullman of the first seetiou. The wreekage had to be cut away with blow-torches to enable the loeomotive to be towed out. •«£ The aceident oecurred at about^ a.m.. when many of the passengers were still in bed or just rising. The bedrooms, jlrawing-rooms and . occupants were crushed into the narrow space at the front of the Pullman car, from which the bodies were taken after hours of work.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 January 1948, Page 2
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