THE WRECKED MAIL TRAIN.
The westward bound Union Pacific fast mail train was wrecked at Sydney, Nebraska, on January 9th. Out of seven cars five were burnt, togetuer with nearly fifty tons of postal matter. The loss to the Railway Company was about 30,000 dollars; but compared to the damage to persons whose letters were in transit this is nothing. The fire was communicateby overturned stoves in the forward mail car. Fortunately the steamship Gallia was detained on her Western Atlantic trip, otherwise the English mail for Australia, which was on board, would have been transferred to this train, and all lost in the wreck and burnt.
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Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 74518, 6 February 1890, Page 6
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