28 BODIES RECOVERED
TRAIN SMASH IN U.S.A* MANY PEOPLE MISSING (Received June 20, 2.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 19. Twenty-eight bodies have been recovered from Custer Creek, where the trans-continental express train crashed on a washed-out bridge. The engine, the baggage car, the mail car, and the four leading passenger cars fell off the wrecked bridge into the flooded waters of the creek. A relief train picked up 50 injured, and in addition 67 were treated for minor injuries. At least 46 person! are not accounted for.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 10
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8728 BODIES RECOVERED Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 10
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