RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
(nv ki.i-j imotki.k<;iuhi—copyright.) Washington, August 7. The accident at Po;! iiyirm vn< caused by the coupling of 1 h<: liufguge train breaking. Tim guard .-it tcm j.; i>l lo warn the imsscnger train, which \v;>s coming along , at tliM rate of I •> luilus an hour, hut the weather w,is foggy, ami thi! signal* with nut sjun. A smokini»eiir, full of lliilian workiui'ti, warsmashed, mid if is !'■ nivl thai s-veral of I In; occupants will succumb to their injuries. August '.). Owing to Hie express train from Pittsburg to Chiciigo being wrongly shiintod on to a goods line itt. Sedem, Oljio, a collision took plnce. in which two persons were killed .ind a number seriously injured.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2976, 11 August 1891, Page 2
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116RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2976, 11 August 1891, Page 2
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