AMERICAN RAILROAD DISASTER.
United Press Association —Copyright NEW YORK, July 21. A train with 800 excursionists on the Pere Parquette railway near Salem, Michigan, dashed into a freight train coming in the opposite direction. Six out of eleven cars were destroyed. Thirty-five persons were killed and scores injured, many critically. There were 150 childr in among the excursionists. A few were severely hurt bub the victims were chiefly men.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2139, 23 July 1907, Page 2
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69AMERICAN RAILROAD DISASTER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2139, 23 July 1907, Page 2
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