Terrible Railway Accident.
TWELVE PERSONS DROWNED AND TWENTY-FIVE INJURED. [reuter’s telegrams.] New York, July 20. A disastrous railway accident occurred near Ohio. A train left the rails, and fell over an embankment into the water. Twelve persons wore drowned and twenty-five severely injured.
“ It it something I can’t understand,” said Mrs. Wigglesworth, laying down the paper. “ Why every Frenchman’s first name begins with aM. There’s M. Ferry, and M. Wilson, and M. Grevy, and a dozen more. Must bother the postmaster terrible.” Precocious five year old : “ Pa, how is it a jury can convict a man of manslaughter •when he killed a woman?” —Pa, bolting his breakfast: “ Ask your ma. She knows more about manslaughter than I do,” It is twenty years since Major Atkinson first became a member of a New Zealand Government.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 189, 22 July 1884, Page 2
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134Terrible Railway Accident. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 189, 22 July 1884, Page 2
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