HEAD-ON COLLISION
SERIOUS RAILWAY SMASH IN CALIFORNIA TEN KILLED AND FORTY INJURED. SWITCH FAILS TO WORK. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) LOS'ANGELES, September 20. Four passengers were killed and forty injured and six of the crew are believed to have been killed, as a result of a head-on collision between two Southern Pacific trains, 180 miles j from Los Angeles. Apparently a switch did not work, causing the Argonaut, from New Ort leans, to crash -into the Chicago bound 1 Californian, which was waiting on a i siding. Both locomotives were over- ■ turned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1938, Page 5
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97HEAD-ON COLLISION Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1938, Page 5
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