RAILWAY DISASTER.
TRAIN FALLS INTO A RIVER.
TWENTY-EIGHT LIVES LOST,
NEW YORK, October 25.
The express train from Buffalo to New York fell into the Hudson River. The corridor cars floated. Axes were procured, and the roofs of a number of the cars were hewn through, allowing the passengers to escape. Twenty-eight inmates of the other carriages were drowned.
NEW YORK, October 25,
Two of the cars which fell into the Hudson River from the Buffalo express lodged in water fifty feet deep. Seven women were rescued. Seventy persons were injured. Lord Douglas, of Hawick, son and heir of the Marquis of Qucensberry, who was amongst the passengers, had a narrow escape.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 248, 26 October 1897, Page 5
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