RAILWAY SMASHES.
AM AMERICAN HORROR. ENGINE EXPLODES AND FSRES WRECKAGE. PASSENGERS ROASTED ALIVE. [INDEPENDENT PRESS CABLE] LONDON, Oct. 7.
. A dreadful railway disaster is reported to-day from the United States. A train bound from Boston to New York left the .points near Westport, in Connecticut. 'J he locomotive was overturned and exploded, setting fire to the carriages. The passengers in the cars that caught fire were so pinned under the wreckage that they could not escape, and most of them were roasted alive before tho eyes of people who were unable to rescue them. Fifteen persons are known to have been killed", and 50 others injured. . Among those who perished was Miss Brady, daughter of Mr A. N. Brady, the railway traction millionaire.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3660, 23 October 1912, Page 4
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123RAILWAY SMASHES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3660, 23 October 1912, Page 4
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