CABLE NEWS.
(By Electiuc Telegraph-Copyright.) (Per; Press Association.) . : NEW YORK, July 2,
. A car load of gun powder standing, in a tunnel on the Southern Pacific railread near Sriii.Francisco exploded, derailing an approaching freight train. Many ol tho train's crew were injured. The tunnel. was- wrecked.
■'The Eriormail train was held up by twelve armed and masked men and the mail and express cars rilled and the mail clork and conductor both shot, the former fatally. Tho robbers tied'telegraph poles across the linick and stopped the train, and many passengers alighted (Junking there- was a collision. There was a stampedo aboard tho train when the robbers lircd upon ihom. At Pittsburg a painter named Stack 'fell from a height of 250 feet above the ground, and suspended by a. burning rope with his clothes afire, descended hand lender liano. Ho was terribly burned. He had lighted a cigarette and the lighted match fell into his bucket of naotha and
LONDON, July 2. Tlirco seamen were iishpyxiat.ee] on the battleship Superb by an explosion of coal gas in the bunkers.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9553, 3 July 1911, Page 3
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