TRAIN DISASTER.
TWENTY PEOPLE PERISH AND MANY INJURED.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrigbt Received 9.5 p.m., May 12. New York, May 12. The driver of the eastward bound freight train near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in order to avoid shunting the en gine, applied an air-brake, causing the middle portion of the train to buckle, and several oars, including one of dynamite, were thrown over the line.
One of the fastest Pennsylvania night expresses, westward bound, crashed into the wreckage, oausing an explosion of dynamite, also of the boiler, setting fire to the carriages. Many passengers were pinioned in the wreckage. The work of rescue was impeded by a suooession of explosions of some dynamite which was scattered along the track.
Twenty persons were incinerated, seventy were injured, and eighty escaped scathless.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1453, 13 May 1905, Page 2
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