The Railway Horror.
0a the Western and North Caroline railroad on August 22ud, at % a.m., at Kaiton's Bridge, nearStatesville, the West bound passenger trains loaded with people, plunged into the creek owing to the spreading of the n:' 1 "- TUe descent is at least sixtyfive'feet, and the wb&C t^! n o£ cars was reduced to splinters in the fall. The Pullman sleeper leaped gyer all the others ami striking the ground with teriffic force was crushed liko an eggshell. Twenty passengers were kiljed outright, nine seriously injured, and twenty badjy bruised. The night was dismal, and' to increase the horror t of the situation the water in the creek ( had lisen. It was only by the most , heroic esbrts p_f those who lent assistance that the injured were not ' drowned. The passengers were taken < from the wreck mangled in all sorts of ways. Only two or three bodies were intact. The engineer and stack- , man were cut into small pieces. Every ( person in the sleeper were killed. (
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3937, 13 October 1891, Page 2
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167The Railway Horror. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3937, 13 October 1891, Page 2
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