Sensational Disaster.
HF.AYY LOSS OF LIFE
New York, Jamiary 17. A SENSATIONAL disaster, involving heavy loss of life, occurred near Deuver, Colorado, yesterday. A passenger tram collided - . heavy goods train, which was going m the opposite direction, the impact boiug terrific. The drawing-roan car of the passenger train was telescoped y force of the collision, and of ltb «*tynine passengers only one was e alive, sixty-eight being either killed outright or eo seriously injured that they died within a few hours. . The only passenger to survive the collision was a six-year-old girl who was found alive under her mothers The wreckage caught fire, but the officials of the trains speedily extinguished the outbreak by means of snow on the line.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4362, 19 January 1909, Page 2
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120Sensational Disaster. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4362, 19 January 1909, Page 2
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