MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 163, 13 February 1884, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

ADDITIONAL SUMMARY. Railway Train on Fire. Bradford, Pa., January 15. A stream of waste oil flowing from a tank across Bradford, Bordell, and Kingua Railroad, caught fire this morning on the passenger train from Wellsville, bound for Bradford. The train was immediately enveloped m flames, and the track for a distance of fully one hundred yards was covered with oil. It is believed that the gas coming m contact with the fireboy of the engine, exploded, thus firing the oil, and the fire rapidly spread and enveloped the doomed train, which was man instant m a mass of flames. So intense was ; the heat that windows cracked and fell m. In less time than it : takes to write it^ the ijassenger coach and the baggage ear were converted into a seething, hissing mass of fire. The coach was filled, and there was a rush for the door, but theheat was so intense that the'panic-sfcrickeh passengers were diiveh back and forced to jump through the windows. A relief train with surgeons and cots was at once despatched to the scene. Upon . arrival a terrible sight presented itself The passengers' coach and bag-gage car were smoking, and the engine lay on its back, having turned a complete, somersault. It is definitely known that only three persons (women) "were burned to death. The. names of the dead arc Mrs L. C. Farr, of Kingua junction, (burned beyond recognition), Mrs Fail', a young woman who had only been married two years, her husband escaping by jumping through the window, and Miss Katie Morans^ of i Allen's, N.Y., a mail station near Aikan. The latter was burned to 1 a cinder. Mks Morans was found outside the coach, grasping the window 1 sill. The other dead woman has not . been identified. Thirteen other person* were severely burned and v number 1 willj it is anticipated,- die yet. ;