A BRIDGE DESTROYED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 4 September 1912, Page 5

A BRIDGE DESTROYED

TRAIN PLUNGES INTO A RIVER

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. 4 NEW YORK, Sep. 3, At Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, four railwaymen were killed. A passenger train plunged into the river owing to a bridge being destroyed by the floods. Twenty-six passengers were serious injured.

The smoking-car was carried down stream, the panic-stricken occupants striving to escape by the windows. The -other cars remained on the tracks.

Passengers attired in their nightclothes struggled wildly to leave their Derths, fearing that the cars would follow t^e others riverwards.

The train had previously passed the bridge safely, and was ordered to return- to Camp Douglas to await repairs to the line, which was damaged by a wash-put further on. At the second crossing the bridge collapsed bodily.