TROOP TRAIN WRECKED.
FIFTY-FIVE KLILED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright Vera Cruz, Monday. A Government troop train, carrying an infantry company from Mexico City to Vera Cruz was wrecked by dynamite. The whole train was demolished and 53 officers and men, including an English engineer, were killed. A passenger train following narrowly escaped. It was under the rebels' fire for some time, but pulled up in time to avert a collision with the wreck of the troop train, and was able to steam back out of the danger zone.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 646, 25 February 1914, Page 5
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88TROOP TRAIN WRECKED. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 646, 25 February 1914, Page 5
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