AMERICAN ITEMS
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION
A TRAIN DISASTER
SIXTY PERSONS KILLED. NEW YORK, Aug 6. At Sulphur Springs, Missouri, forty to sixty were killed and one hundred injured iu a railway wreck. The Sti Louis express crashed into a local train, standing on a trestle bridge lot) feet above a creek. Four wooden coaches on the local train were pulverised and fell into the ravine, with the express engine on the top. The escaping steam scalded many victims to death, and others were crushed or drowned. Twenty-four bodies have been recovered. The wreck occurred near Sulphur Springs, a small village of 150 inhabitants with one doctor, who worked all night attempting to free those pinned underneath the wreckage, • beforje relief trains from St l.ouis could reach the spot.
175 CASUAI/TIES. NEW YORK, August 0. Tlie final count shows that thirty eight are dead and 187 injured in the Sulphur Springs train wreck. Twenty five of the injured are in a critical condition.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 August 1922, Page 2
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164AMERICAN ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 8 August 1922, Page 2
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