RAILWAY SMASH.
MANY LIVES LOST. By Telegraph. Press Association. -Copyright New York, Nov. 1.
A gravel car at Indianopolis, running down an incline into a siding, telescoped the car of a passing train containing the Purdue University football team, wfiich, with many students, was travelling to contest the State championship with Indiana University. Fifteen were killed and fifty injured, many being horribly mutilated. The students’ grief and horror was increased by the surgeon being under tho neoesßity of performing amputations 9; on the spot.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1038, 3 November 1903, Page 2
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84RAILWAY SMASH. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1038, 3 November 1903, Page 2
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