APPALLING SMASH

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 8

APPALLING SMASH

THIRTY-THREE KILLED IttAIN TELESCOPED. RETURNING WEEK-ENDERS. NEW YORK, September 5. A Bing’nampton message states that 12 persons were killed and more than a score injured to-night when a freight train telescoped two passenger coaches of a fast Erie railroad train en route from Chicago to New York. A later message says that one woollen car among the train of st.eel cars caused the appalling disaster when it was crushed like a rotten nut. Tho freight, milk trffin buried its nose eight root inti the rear of the stationary Chicago Atlantic express, which was halted at an automatic signal. The passengers were mainly New Yorkers returning from a holiday week-end at the Chicago World Fair. The wooden carriage, which held most of the dead, became a mass of timber pulp. Most of the victims were beyond identification. , DEATH TOLL INCREASES. THE LATEST REPORT. BING HAMPTON, September 5. Tho death toll of the Erie train disaster in which n freight train plunged into two coaches of a passenger train had reached 33 late to-night. Moro than 100 were injured.