EXPRESS LEAPS THE RAILS.
AMERICAN RAILWAY HORROR. THIRTY KILLED—SIXTY INJURED [UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received August 27, o p.m.) NEW YORK, August 26. A cross-country passenger train on the Lehigh Valley railroad, jumped tlie track. Two cars rolled 1 over an embankment sixty feet high into a creek. Thirty persons were killed and sixty injured. All the occupants of the dining car were killed instantly. Many veterans returning from the grand army encampment, held at Rochester, were among tlie victims. The train was running fast to make up lost time, and a deflected rail caused the disaster.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3307, 28 August 1911, Page 5
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96EXPRESS LEAPS THE RAILS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3307, 28 August 1911, Page 5
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