RAILWAY SMASH.
IN THE UNITED STATES
FORTY-FIVE KILLED AND TWENTY-ONE INJURED.
FIRE PREVENTS WORK OF RESCUE. United Press Associatiod—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received March 22, 10.10 p.m. NEW YORK, March 22. A train at Marshalltown (a large manufacturing town, fifcy miles north-east of Des Moines, the capital of Marshall County in lowa, United States of America. The town has a population of about ten thousand), was derailed when turning a curve at a high speed. The accident caused a sleeping car to telescope a smoking car and a day coach.'
Forty-five persons were killed by the accident, and twenty-one injured.
A fire followed the accident, forcing the rescuers to abaudon their efforts to extricate the unfortunate victims.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10001, 23 March 1910, Page 5
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117RAILWAY SMASH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10001, 23 March 1910, Page 5
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