RAILWAY COLLISION.
A PILGRIM TRAIN—YOUNG GIRLS' SAD EXD.- . • ■ • t BY TEr.EOEAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPTRJOHT. Brussels, May 22. The railway collision near Antwerp, in which 40 people wero killed and 80 injured, occurred at tho village of Contich, six miles from Antwerp. ' > • '! Tho victims wero mostly peasant pilgrims f'om tho Shrino at Tnrnhout, twenty-live miles, from Antwerp. \ The signalman, who was arrested, became suddenly demented. The Brussels express, through a mistake, turned on to. a siding where the crowded pilgrim train was waiting. , , Tho express engine was thrown on top of tho pilgrim train, crushing. soveral carriages. A number of young girls dressed for their first communion wero killed.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 206, 25 May 1908, Page 7
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108RAILWAY COLLISION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 206, 25 May 1908, Page 7
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