FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED.
RUNS INTO A ROOKSUDE.
THE C3EW KILLED. j, ______
(Received 11.42 a.m.)
NEW YORK, March 25.
At Sand Point, Idaho, a freight train, consisting of 60 cars, struck a rockslido en the Great Northern line. The engine rolled over an embankment and three cars were wrecked.
The enginedriver, fireman, and brakes, man were killed.
A huge quantity of rock loosened during excavation work collapsed, completing blocking the line.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 74, 26 March 1912, Page 5
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