WONDERFUL ESCAPE
AMERICAN STREAMLINED TRAIN ROCKED BY TWELVE EXPLOSIONS WHEN TRAVELLING AT 85 MILES AN HOUR. ALL PASSENGERS UNHURT. r (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) CHICAGO, September 14. While the streamlined _ train Zephyr was travelling at 85 miles an hour, down a hill, on its way to Omaha, it was rocked by twelve explosions. These shattered the windows of the train and damaged and locked its air brakes. The train slid for a mile on flattening wheels on several cars. All of the 187 passengers were unhurt. Wires were found strung along the track connected to a battery with the switch thrown. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is making inquiries. A message from Coming, in lowa, states that the authorities have revealed that between 25 and 35 sticks of dynamite and a plunger were stolen last week from a rock, quarry nine miles from, the scene of the Zephyr explosions. ____
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1942, Page 4
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