RAILWAY DISASTERS.
COLLISION IN BERLIN. THE FATAL ELECTRIC CURRENT. MANY DEATHS. (SI TILEOEAra—rOE3S ASSOCIATION—COI*Tr.iaHT,) Berlin, September 27. A' train running on an elevated electric railway at Borlin, disregarding tho danger signal at a junction, rammed another, train broadside. Thirty persons were killed and twenty injured, chiefly through the victims coming in contact with the olectric current. • The collision throw a third-class car full of passengers off tho lino into a courtyard twenty feet below, smashing the car and crushing the occupants. ' Another car hung suspended near a viaduct. The injured passengers screamed frantically until firemen relifted the car on to the rails. Many persons were •. terribly mutilate)!, one being decapitated. No one, aboard the colliding train, which ib supposed to bo responsible for the accident, was injured. SMASH IN THE UNITED STATES. NINETEEN KILLED. . . " London, September 27. Reuter's correspondent at Helena, State of Montana, states that during a dense snowstorm a passenger express and a freight train belonging, to the Northern Pacific Railway collided.' : . Nineteen persons were killed and many injured. Everyone in the express smoking car was killed or injured. The car took fire.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 314, 29 September 1908, Page 7
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