RAILWAY DISASTER.
EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED,
By Telegraph-Press Aesociation-Oopyritlit New York, July i. Thirty-four passengers were killed and fifty injured in an express train which collided with the rear of a westbound Lackiranna passenger train near tho village of Corning.
All the rear cars were telescoped and hurled over nn embankment. Most nf the passengers killed wore going homo io spend the Fourth of July holiday. Tho-accident occurred on a straight stretch of track. Tho cause is not known.
An enormous crowd of automobilists, drawn by curiosity, obstructed tho rescue operations, and tbo polioo wore obliged (o drive tkeni from the neighbourhood.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1485, 6 July 1912, Page 5
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101RAILWAY DISASTER. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1485, 6 July 1912, Page 5
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