RAILWAY COLLISION.
AN EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED. THIRTY-FIVE PASSENGERS KILLED. Received July 22, 8.53 a.m. NEW YORK, July 21. A train containing eight hundred excursionists on the Pere Parquette Railway, near Salem, Michigan, dashed into a freight train coming in the opposite direction. Six out of the eleven cars of the train were destroyed. Thirty-five persons were killed. Scores of people were injured, many of whom are in a critical state. A hundred and fifty children were among the excursionists. A few of them were severely hurt, tut the victims were chiefly men.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8493, 23 July 1907, Page 5
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92RAILWAY COLLISION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8493, 23 July 1907, Page 5
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