Six Deaths In Train Collision
(Rec. 9.40 n.m.) LONDON. Oct. 13 Six soldiers were killed, and 10 were injured in a head-on collision today between a freight train and a oassenser train on the nine-mile long military railway that runs between 1 -iss and Bordon in southern England. The railway is operated by men of the Royal Engineers Transportation Centre, and is for the use of military personnel and civilians employed by the War Department. Both trains—one diesel and the other steam—were driven by soldiers, and met on a single track in heavy mist. The driver of the freight train was killed. The injured were rushed to local hospitals.
Rattlesnake in Prison Cell.— A rattlesnake sleeping peacefully in the centre of a cell in the city gaol in Sail (Texas) was sentenced to death yesterday It was not that the sheriff did not like the snake. It was the two men he was about to put in the cell who objected. The sheriff does not know how the snake got in the cell, but the men were there for stealing oilfield equipment. Gail (Texas), October 13.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28099, 15 October 1956, Page 11
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