BRIDGE COLLAPSES.
PASSENGER TRAIN IN RIVER PANIC-STRICKEN MENBy Tclcerapli-Press Association-Oopyriulit (Roc. September i, 0.45 a.m.) New York, September 3. At Camp Douglas, ■Wisconsin, four railvraynicn were killed and a passenger train plunged into a. river, owing to n bridge having been destroyed by floods. Twentysix of tho passengers wcro seriously injured. A smoking-mtr was carried down stream, tho panic-stricken occupants striving to escape by tlio windows. Other cars remained on the trucks, but the passengers in their nightclothes struggled wildly to leave their berths, fearing their cars would follow the others rivcrwarils. The train had previously passed the bridge safely, but had been ordered to jotnrn to Camp Douglas to await repairs, as the line was damaged by a wash-out further on. At tho second crossing the bridge collapsed bodily.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1536, 4 September 1912, Page 7
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130BRIDGE COLLAPSES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1536, 4 September 1912, Page 7
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