RAILWAY DISASTER.
MANY LIVES LOST IN OHIO. TWO TRAINS COLLIDE. CARS ROLL DOWN EMBANKMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.. (Rec, July 5, 9.20 p.m.) Now York, July 5. A terrible railway disaster, accompanied by much loss of life, has occurred at Dayton, Ohio. A passenger train collided with a freight train, tho engine of the latter crashing through a smoking car and a day coach filled with women and children.
Tho two cars were over-turned, and with their occupants rolled down an embankment.
Thirty-one bodies havo. already been recovered. Eighty-seven of survivors were injured, many of thorn being pinned beneath the wreckage.
The other cars in tho passenger train were derailed, but without any fatalities occurring.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 861, 6 July 1910, Page 7
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114RAILWAY DISASTER. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 861, 6 July 1910, Page 7
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