TRAIN SMASH IN AMERICA.
9 EXPRESS TELESCOPED IN A FOG.' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright New York, Soptembor 2. From Nowhaven, Connecticut, comes news of.a train collision, with loss of life, twenty persons boing killed and one hundred injured. Tho White Mountain express train, laden with returning excursionists, ran into tho Bar Harbour express (also full of excursionists) from tho rear. Sovoral cars wore reduced to splinters. Thirteen bodies havo so far been re- ' covered. 1 A thick fog is believed to have been tho cause of tho disaster. (Reo. September 3, 9.35 p.m.) Tho White Mountain express engine cut complotely through tho last two Pullman cars of the Bar Harbour express, throwing mangled bodies in all directions. Tho track was covered with mangled remains. Tho death-roll is definitely stated ,to bo twenty-six. ' A defective signal was the cause of tho disaster.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1846, 4 September 1913, Page 7
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140TRAIN SMASH IN AMERICA. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1846, 4 September 1913, Page 7
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