TRAINS COLLIDE
EIGHTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. THREE SLEEPERS TELESCOPED DISASTER NEAR PITTSBURG. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—GOPYBfGHT. Received 10 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, June 17. At least eighteen people were killed when the Cincinnati train crashed into the rear of the Washington express late on Wednesday evening near Pittsburg. It is feared that there are other bodies in the Wreckage of three sleepers, where most of the dead were found. One of the sleepers at the end of the train and two others were completely telescoped.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 June 1926, Page 5
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84TRAINS COLLIDE Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 June 1926, Page 5
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