RAILWAY SMASH.
TWO TRAINS IN COLLISION.
HUNDRED MEN KILLED.
MAl*nr BURNED TO DEATH.
(Received 10.35 a.m.)
NEW YORK, June 23.
A train conveying the Hagenbach circus to Gary, Indiana, stopped on the track owing to a hot box. An empty Pullman train which was following collided with! the stationary train, and over 100 circus hands were killed, many being burned to death. Half the train was telescoped.— (A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 149, 24 June 1918, Page 6
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