TRAIN SMASH

Evening Star, Issue 21510, 7 September 1933, Page 9

TRAIN SMASH

RAILWAY DISASTER IN AMERICA FREIGHTER RAMS EXPRESS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, September 5. A message from Binghampton states that twelve persons were killed and more than a score injured to-night when a freight train telescoped two passenger coaches of the fast Erie railroad train, eu route from Chicago to New York. TWENTY-THREE DEATHS BINGHAMPTON, September 5. The death roll in the train disaster had reached at least twenty-three late to-night, while more than 100 were injured. WOODEN CARRIAGE SMASHED TO BITS NEW YORK, September 6. One wooden car among a train of steel cars caused the appalling Binghampton disaster when it was crushed like a rotten nut. A freight milk train buried its nose eight feet into the rear of the stationary Chicago-Atlantic express, which had halted at an automatic signal. The passengers were mainly from New York, and were returning from a holiday week-end at the Chicago World Fair. The wooden carriage, which held most of tho dead, became a mass of timber pulp and most of the victims were beyond identification.