RAILWAY DISASTER
PASSENGER TRAIN CRASHES THROUGII A BRIDGE PLUNGE INTO A RIVER THREE KILLED AND THIRTY-FIVE INJURED By .Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright New York, April 6. A Wabash passenger train crashed through a bridge over the Wabash River at Attica, Indiana, the engine, a baggage car, and a day coach dropping into the water. The day coach was crowded with passengers, tho majority of whom were injured. None of the passengers were killed. Thirty-five were injured. The bridge had been weakened by the smash of a freight train earlier. The fatalities were confined to the trainmen. Tho engineer was crushed under the engine, and the fireman was scalded to death, whilo a, baggageman was crushed under an avalanche of trucks.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2118, 8 April 1914, Page 7
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118RAILWAY DISASTER Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2118, 8 April 1914, Page 7
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