ANOTHER TRAIN SMASH
U.S.A. DISASTER
EIGHTEEN PEOPLE KILLED
SLEEPING CARS WRECKED,
(By Cable.—Tress Association.—Copyright.)
(•Received 10.00 a.m.)
PITTSBURG, June 17
At least eighteen people were killed "hen tlie Cincinnati train crushed into the rear of the Washington express late on Wednesday evening near Pittsburg. It is feared that there are other bodies in the wreckage of tlie three sleeping carriages where most of the dead were found. One of tlie cars was pushed right up on end, and the two other sleeping carriages were comnlotelv telescoped.— (A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1926, Page 7
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