FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED.
ROLLS OVER EMBANKMENT
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. NEW YORK, March &> At Sandpoint, Idaho, a freight train of sixty cars wae struck by a rockslide oa the Groat Northern Railway. The engine rolled over an embankment, and three care were wrecked, Tb© engine-driver, fireman, and. brakesman were killed. A huge quantity of rock that had been loosened during excavation work collapsed, and completely blocked the line.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14314, 27 March 1912, Page 9
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