MUCH LOSS OF LIFE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 5, 6 July 1910, Page 7

MUCH LOSS OF LIFE.

TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER. COLLISION AT DAYTON, OHIO. By Telegraph. — Presi Association.— Copyrignt. NEW YORK, sth July. A terrible railway disaster, accompanied: by much, loss of life, has occurred at Dayton, Ohio. A passenger train collided -nith a freight train, the engine of the latter crashing through a smoking car and a day coacb filled with women and chiLdren. The two cars were overturned, and. with their occupants rolled down an embankment. Thirty-one bodies have already been .recovered. Eighty-seven of the survivors were injured, many of them berngi pinned beneath the wreckage. The other cars in the passenger train were derailed, but without any fatalities -occurring. CRICKET DISPUTE. SOUTH AFRICA WILL NOT SEND A TEAM. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. . CAPETOWN, sth July. The South African Cricket Association has decidedi that since a guarantee isnot forthcoming from tho Australian. Board of Control, it will- not send a team to the Commonwealth. [The original offer of the Australian. i BoaTd of Cricket Control was 50 p«r j cent, of ithe gross takings «i out-side I gates, while South Africa asks for half i of ail the gates, with a guarantee of £5000. The South African Cricket Association recently cabled to th© Australian Board of Cricket Control that the association was most anxious to send a. team to Australia, but could not do/ so without a guarantee. The association promised that if a guarantee was forthcoming a team would be sent which would include all -th» best South African* players.]