MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. At Westport (Connecticut) an express train was wrecked. Four parlor cars were burned, and it is believed that the victims (of whom eight bodies have been recovered) were roasted to death. The cause of the disaster is not known. Later advices state that the engine failed to take the points, overturned, and exploded, setting the coaches on fire. At Reno (Nevada) the locomotive of a freight train exploded. The engineer and fireman were killed, and 16 cars were piled in a heap. _ Fire gutted Messrs Berry and Hodgson's timber yard, Adelaide, covering an acre of ground. Heavy rain helped to check the flames. The damage is estimated at. £IOO,OOO.
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Evening Star, Issue 14999, 5 October 1912, Page 5
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