RAILROAD DISASTER.
A lorrible accident occurred at the crossing of the Grand Trunk and Michigan Central Railway in the St. Thomas, Ontario, about seven o'clock on the evening of July 13, caused by an . excursion train on the grand trunk from Port Stanley running into passing freight train on the Michigan Cen- 1 tral made up of a number of cars laden with oil. This took iiie, and the flames were communicated to the excursion train, many • of the passengers on which ' »»et with a frightful death. The number who perished is stated afc 100 and the injured at 40. Warehouses and dwellings in the vicinity were burned, and the property loss will reach L 60,000. The , main cause of the disaster was the failure of the air-brakes to .work, '
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 4
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130RAILROAD DISASTER. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 4
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