TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER.
New York, Aug. 11. A terrible railway disaster is reported from Illinois. A train proceeding to Niagara, while passing , over a bridge which was on fire, fell through to the river below. Fully 300 persons were killed and injured. London, Aug. 13. An accident to a train at Illinois occurred at midnight. The first engine cleared the bridge, but the second, to which was £ attached tea carriages, crammed with over 1000 was wrecked, six of the carriages being telescoped. The wreckage ignited, and those who were not injured and those least wounded desperately combated the flames for four hours, smothering the fire with handfuls of earth, until' a torrent of rain extinguished it. Mean, while the wounded remained without attendance, and suffered great agony from want of water. Two of the male passengers, who dreaded the approach of the fire, committed suicide. Proulers robbed many of the dead and womded, bat desisted on a lynching party being organised. The driver of the second engine was beheaded, One hundred and fifty were killed, and three hundred wounded, many fatally. The six hindmost carriages, composed of sleeping cars, escaped from the accident,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1621, 16 August 1887, Page 1
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193TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER. Temuka Leader, Issue 1621, 16 August 1887, Page 1
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