TRAINS COLLIDE IN AMERICA
* . DRIVER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER NEW YORK, April 28. Five are now dead as a result of the Hudson tube train collision, which is described as the worst accident in the history of Jersey City. A train motorman has been arrested and charged with manslaughter, also with operating the train while under the influence of liquor. This* train entered the Exchange place station at a speed estimated at more than 60 miles an hour, and crashed into another train. The derailed cars ripped up 50 feet of tracks. A car crashed on to the station platform with such terrific force that trucks were sheared off and the car shot, without wheels, on'to the platform.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23625, 30 April 1942, Page 3
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