RAILWAY DISASTER.
THIRTY PERSONS KILLED. CARS FALL OVER EMBANKMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August 27, 5 p.m.) New York, August 27. A passenger train on tho Lehigh Valley Railroad jumped tho track, and two cars rolled over an embankment, falling sixty ftfet into a creek. Thirty persons wero killed and sixty wero injured. All the occupants of tho dining-car wero killed instantly. Many veterans returning from tho Grand Army encampment held at Rochester were among tho victims. Tho train was runni-jg fast to make up lost time, and a defective rail caused the disaster. TRAIN GOES OVER A BRIDGE. New York, August 25. It is reported that a N.ew York Central passenger train went over a bridgo. Many are stated to have been killed. A relief train has been dispatched.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1217, 28 August 1911, Page 5
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130RAILWAY DISASTER. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1217, 28 August 1911, Page 5
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