TRAIN DISASTER.
23 Killed and Over 100 Injured In U.S. Wreck. COACH CRUSHED TO PIECES. NEW YORK, September 6. Twenty-three people were killed and more than 100 injured last evening when a freight train ran into and telescoped two passenger coaches of an express train on the Erie railway at Binghampton, New York. The express was bound from Chicago to New York. The one wooden car in a train of steel cars caused the appalling disaster. It was crushed like a rotten nut when the freight train buried its nose eight feet into the rear of the express, which had halted at an automatic signal. The passengers were mainly New York residents who were returning from the Chicago World's Fair. The wooden carriage, which held most of the dead, became a mass of timber pulp.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 211, 7 September 1933, Page 7
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135TRAIN DISASTER. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 211, 7 September 1933, Page 7
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