EPIDEMIC OF TRAIN WRECKS.
AMERICA'S GRIM RECORD,
v Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, February 15;
There has been an epidemic of train wrecks in North America. Two freight trains collided north of Yarmouth, the wreckage being burned. Three trainmen lost their lives in the flames.
A fireman of a locomotive was pinned under the debris and mangled. He asked for something to kill himself with, owing t0,., terrible pain. A doctor administered chloroform, and later the fire swept down, burning the man to ashes. Nine cars of the east-bound Pennsylvania railroad express were derailed at Huntingdon. Four persons were killed, and 25 injured. A third wreck has occurred, in Utah. A locomotive jumped a track at Bingham, rolled down an embankment, and crashed through several houses, killing three employees in a tailor's shop. The locomotive finally fell through the rooi of a bank, the clerks of which narrowly' escaped. The engine-driver was killed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 197, 17 February 1912, Page 5
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152EPIDEMIC OF TRAIN WRECKS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 197, 17 February 1912, Page 5
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