DOOMED TRAIN
MANY PASSENGERS DROWNED IN CREEK AT LEAST 46 PERSONS MISSING. CHICAGO, June 19. Twenty-eight bodies have been recovered from Custer Creek, where the Olympian trans-continental express crashed through a washed-out bridge., The engine, baggage-car, mail-car and four forward passenger cars were spilled off the wrecked bridge into the flooded waters of the creek. A relief train picked up fifty injured, in addition to 67 treated for minor injuries. Thus far at least 46 are unaccounted for.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 10
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78DOOMED TRAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 10
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