TRAIN DISASTER
TWENTY KILLED IN UNITED STATES COACHES PLUNGE INTO CREEK. HEAVY RAIN UNDERMINES BRIDGE. (Recd This Day. 10.10 a.m.) CHICAGO. June 19. A passenger train, travelling from Chicago to Seattle, plunged into a creek when the bridge collapsed after heavy rain had undermined a pier. It is estimated that twenty persons were drowned and sixty injured. The engine, baggage and mail cars, two coaches and two sleepers were submerged. The engine crew, a baggage man and a mail clerk were among those who lost their lives.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1938, Page 6
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87TRAIN DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1938, Page 6
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