A TRAIN DERAILED.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE
(Per Press Association.—('opyrit/ht.) New Yokk, Dec. 28. • A train was derailed at Birmingham, Alabama, on a trestle bridge, and 117 people killed. Washington, Dec. 28. The train fell a hundred feet on to the rocks below. Many passengers, who were chiefly miners, were burned to death through the stoves setting the carriages alight. Thirty-five in all were killed. A rail of the bridge had been maliciously removed.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 207, 29 December 1896, Page 2
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74A TRAIN DERAILED. Hastings Standard, Issue 207, 29 December 1896, Page 2
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