RAILWAY DISASTER.
TRAIN STRIKES A ROCK SLIDE. By Telegraph-Press Association-CopjriEUt New York, March 25. At Sand Point, Idaho, where tho North- ™ Pacific Railway crosses Lake PencT d Oreille, a freight train, consisting of sixty cars, struck a rock slide. The O ngin o ro u e( i OV6r an cmban k meutj and three cars were wrecked. The engine-driver, fireman, and brakesman were killed. A huge quantity of rock that had been loosened during excavation work had collapsed, completely blocking the line. Into this obstruction the train ran.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1399, 27 March 1912, Page 5
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88RAILWAY DISASTER. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1399, 27 March 1912, Page 5
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