SHOCKING RAILWAY DISASTER
- -■ ' •■ ... * -*~ COLLISION BETWEEN A PASSENGER & GOODS TRAIN. TERRIBLE SCENES. PERSONB BURNT AND FROZEN TO DEATH. By Electric Telegraph.— -Copyright.. [PER UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.! Philadbiphi a, January 11. A terrible raid way disaster occurred near Urgoming, in Luzerehe County, ■ Pennsylvaniai, yesterday: A passenger train, 1 crowded "with "passengers, was run into by a- goods train. The carriages ofthe'foT'mer were smashed to pieces, and the wreckage was fired by the^ stoves* used for warming the compartments. Most appalling scenes were witnessed. A great many being unable to extricate themselves from the wreckage were burned to death, and a number of those who did get free were frozen to death,- the weather being bitterly cold at the time. Nearly all of -those who escaped death have reaeiyed serious injuries. The scene was so horrible that the conductor of the train lost his reason.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 89, 14 January 1888, Page 2
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