TRAIN ON FIRE.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT). New York, January 21. A passenger train collided with an oil tank train in Alton, Madison County, Illinois. The wreckage caught fire and ignited the, od, Ten passengers were parboiled and forty injured.
WASHDTCTOIf, Jauuary23. The total number of those .injured in the Alton railway accident was 94. Eleven more are in a 'dying condition. Burning oil was thrown in the air by the forco of the explosion, and covered a radius of a hundred yards. Sheets of flame descended on the spectators and the men: engaged'in the work of rescue, causing fearful injuries.
Many jumped into the .river in their agony, and the scene is described asmost awful. : '• ' : ~
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Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3211, 24 January 1893, Page 2
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115TRAIN ON FIRE. Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3211, 24 January 1893, Page 2
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