EXPRESS TRAIN DERAILED.
FORTY-FIVE KILLED. WRECKAGE TAKES FIRE. HIGH SPEED ON A CURVE. (By —Press Association.—Copyright) NEW YORK, March 22. A terrible railway "disaster is reported from Marshaltown," lowa, where an ex- | press train was derailed whilst rounding I a sharp curve. { A sleeping car telescoped a smoking | car and a day coach. Heavy loss of ; life was the result, forty-five persons being killed and twenty-one injured. The wrecked cars caught fire after th'; accident, and those who were engaged in rescuing the injured passengers were thereby compelled to abandon their efforts. The train was travelling at a high rat.; of speed when the accident occurred, and this is believed to have caused the disaster.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 70, 23 March 1910, Page 5
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115EXPRESS TRAIN DERAILED. Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 70, 23 March 1910, Page 5
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