TRAIN WRECKED.
RUNS INTO A ROCK-SLIDE. ENGINE ROLLS OVER AN EMBANKMENT THREE MEN KILLED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received March 26, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, 25th March. Afc Sand Point, Idaho, a freight train, consisting of sixty cars, struck a rock elide on the Great Northern Railway. The engine rolled over an embankment, and three cars were wrecked. The engine-driver, fireman, and brakesman were killed. i A huge quantity of rock that had been loosened during excavation work collapsed, completely blocking the line. Into this obstruction the train ran.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 73, 26 March 1912, Page 7
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