COLLISION IN A TUNNEL.
TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. By Telegraph-Press Association-Oopyrietat New York, February ?1. From North Adams, Massachusetts, comes news that a freight train collided in the middle of the Hoosac tunnel (45 miles long) with a crowded Boston express train. The wreckage of the freight train caught fire, and four trainmen were burned to death. The tunnel was blocked' completely. The passengers aboard the* express escaped. Tho heat was so great that portions of the tunnel collapsed. The Hoosac tunnel is the longest railway tunnel in tho United States, and tho ordinary time of transit through its four and a lialf wiles is nine minutes. It is on the Boston and Maine Railroad, 135 miles west from Jioston. The tunnel was made in 1855-71 at a cost of .£4,000,000. The dimension of the aperture is 29 feet by 9 feet. North Adams is a manufacturing city of about ,10,000 inhabitants, and lies about two miles from the western end of tho tunnel.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1371, 23 February 1912, Page 5
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163COLLISION IN A TUNNEL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1371, 23 February 1912, Page 5
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