TRAIN DISASTER
ON NEW YORK=FLORIDA RUN HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE TWO FAST PASSENGER TRAINS WRECKED. » ONE DASHES INTO THE OTHER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 16. At least 50 persons were killed and scores were injured and sent to hospital in the wreck of two fast passenger trains on the New YorkFlorida run. One report says 75 were killed aboard one train and one on the other. One train became derailed at Buie, near Lumberton, in North Carolina, and the second train crashed into the wreckage a few minutes later. Each was loaded with holiday travellers, including many service personnel going home for Christmas. A railway official said the wreck was believed to have been caused by a broken rail.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1943, Page 4
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126TRAIN DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1943, Page 4
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