TRAIN DISASTER
CABLE NEWS
(United Press Association — By Electric Tdegraph~-Copyright.)
AN EXPLOSION. (Received October 5, 9.19 o'clock.) NEW YORK, October 4. News has been received from Reno. Nevada, that a locomotive of a freight train exploded, the engineer and firemen being killed-. Sixteen of the cars were piled in a heap. A MENDED DEATH-ROLL. CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT. (Received October 5, f).]f) a.m.) NEW YORK, a-tnbe-r 4. In connection with the train.disas--1 ter at Westport, Connecticut, the corrected- oasualty list' shows that eight persons, :eluding five women, were killed. The engine failed to tnke the points, and was overturned 1 . An explosion followed. The coaches caught fire, but the pasI sengers escaped without sustaining | burns. > 'TTTIL'*"","* -ll"T^l.'__.'J!.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 7 October 1912, Page 5
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117TRAIN DISASTER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 7 October 1912, Page 5
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