RAILWAY SMASHES.
ACCIDENTS IN AMERICA.
By Talfsrrinti—Prejt A«wclafcloa— o»uyrieh> Naw York, February 15. • There has been an epidemio of train wrecks in North America.
Two freight trains collided at North Yarmouth, and tho wreckage caught on lire, threo train men losing their lives in tho flames.
A fireman on a locomotive was pinned among tho debris. He was badly mangled, and asked for something to kill tho torriblo pain. A doctor administered chloroform, but later the firo swept down, burning the man to ashes. Nino cars on tho' cast-bound Pennsylvania Railroad express were derailed at Huntingdon. Four persons were killed and twenty-fivo injured. A third wreck occurred in Utah. A locomotive jumped tho track at Bingham, and rolled down tho embankment, crashing through housos, and killing threo tailor-shop employees. The locomotive finally fell through the roof of a bank, the clerks in which narrowly escaped. Tho engine-driver was killed.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1366, 17 February 1912, Page 5
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