RAILWAY DISASTER.
TRAIN JUMPS iHE TRACK. TWO CARS PRECIPITATED INTO THE WATER. SEVENTY PEOPLE DROWNED. Received October 29, 9.21 p.m. NEW YORK, October 29. A train while crossing the bridge over the Pleasantville water, separating Atlantic City from the mainland, jumped the track. Two oars were precipitated into the water. Seventy passengers, mostly residents of Philadelphia, were drowned. Twenty were injured and remain in the hospital. A third oar caught on the abutment of te bridge, and twenty passengers escaped by the rear door.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8274, 30 October 1906, Page 5
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84RAILWAY DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8274, 30 October 1906, Page 5
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