DELIBERATE CRIME
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED IN PENNSYLVANIA RAILS LOOSENED COACHES PLUNGE OVER EMBANKMENT. FOUR KILLED & 108 INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Receivel This Day, 11.5 a.m.) BADEN (Pennsylvania), March 17. Definite evidence of sabotage was found after a Cleveland to Pittsburgh passenger train had been wrecked, killing four persons and injuring 108, of whom 69 are seriously hurt. Railroad officials said someone familiar with the block signal system loosened the rails without breaking the electric signal circuit, which would have halted the train, which was travelling at a speed of G 5 miles an hour. The train struck the loosened rail and plunged over a forty-foot embankment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1941, Page 4
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106DELIBERATE CRIME Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1941, Page 4
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