FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION.
THIRTY-FIVE PEOPLE KILLED. TWENTY-ONE INJURED. Received January 3, 9.58 p.m. NEW YORK, January 3. Two passenger trains on the Chi-cago-Pacific railway collided, near Altavista,tin Texas. Thirty-five were killed and twenty-one were injured. Twenty-nine Mexican labourers were incinerated. The failure of the night operator to transmit orders to the driver of the west-bound train caused the collision.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8324, 4 January 1907, Page 5
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59FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8324, 4 January 1907, Page 5
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