Frightful Railway Accident.
DYNAMITE CAR EXPLODED. (Received May 12, 9.3 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 12. The driver of an eastward-bound freight train near Hnrrisfaurg, Pennsylvania, in order to avoid a «hunttog engine, applied the a'ir brake, causing the middle portion of the train to buckle. Several cars, including one containing; dynamite, were, thrown on the other lino. One of the fastest Pennsylvania night expresses, westward bound, crashed into the wreckage, causing an explosion of the dynamitoi, also of the boiler, thus settling lire to the carriages. Many passengers were pinioned in the wreckage. Their rescue was impeded by a succession of explosions of some dynamite which had been scattered along the track Twenty were incinerated and seventy injured. Eighty escaped scathless.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7821, 13 May 1905, Page 2
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121Frightful Railway Accident. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7821, 13 May 1905, Page 2
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