AMERICAN ITEMS.
[Redtehs Tex.egrams.] A DISASTROUS FOG. NEW YORE, February 11. A fog rivalling in density the' recent Loudon blankets of mist, and hitherto unknown here, settled over the northern half of the United States and the Atlantic coast, and resulted in considerable loss of life, many injuries to people, much damage to property, and great inconvenience during the past two days.
Three elevated trains and trams, and two railway trains and two ferry boats collided, resulting in tlie deaths of - persons and 14 being seriously injured. 'the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of Scotland collided with a Biitish freighter, the Scotsburgh, the latter suffering considerable damage.
Eleven hundred passengers on incoming liners were unable to land until to-night. This occurred at New York while at Chester, Pennsylvania, five persons were killed when a locomotive hidden in a fog ran down two motor
ears. Two persons were seriously injured at Xewhaven. Connecticut in an auto and tram collision. Other minor accidents are reported in many places.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1925, Page 2
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165AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1925, Page 2
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