TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
APPALLING SCENES. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (By Electric; Telegraph—Copyriuiit.) Philadelphia, January 11. A TERRIBLE railway disaster occurred near Wyoming, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, yesterday. A passenger train, crowded with passengers, was run into by a poods train. The carriages of the former were sma-iied to pieces, and (he wreckage was fire'! by the stoves used for warming the compartments. Most appalling f-cenes were witnessed. A great many passengers, boms unable to extricate themselves from the wreckage, were burnt to death. Nearly all of those who escaped death have received serious injuries. The scene was so horrible that the conductor of the train lost his reason. Numbers of those who did tret free were frozen to death, the weather being bitterly cold at th» ! ime.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2421, 17 January 1888, Page 2
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126TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2421, 17 January 1888, Page 2
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