RAILWAY DISASTERS.
AMERICAN FATALITIES. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. New York, October 4. In connection with the express train disaster at Westport, Connecticut, the latest reports state that eight were killed, five being women. The engine failed to take the points, and turned over, and the boiler exploded. Although the coaches took fire, none of the passengers were burned. The boiler of the locomotive of a freight train at Reno, Nevada, exploded, the engineer and fireman being killed, and sixteen cars being piled up in a heap.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 119, 7 October 1912, Page 5
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86RAILWAY DISASTERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 119, 7 October 1912, Page 5
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