COLLISION DRAMA
I COACHES TELESCOPED i I - . -- ON PITTSBURG RAILWAY. EIGHTEEN PASSENGERS KILLED. (Received 9 a.m.) ; NEW YORK, Juno 17. ! A( least 18 people were killed when a ' Cincinnati train crashed into the .rear of. a Washington express late on Wednesday evening, near Pittsburg. It is feared there are other bodies in the wreckage of three sleeping coaches where most of. the dead were found. One coach, at the end and two others were completely telescoped.—A. and n.z. " . ANOTHER DISASTER. i SLEEPING CAR ABLAZE]! FIVE DEAD BODIES. (Received 9 a.m!) ' !' SAN FRANCISCO, June 16. Five bodies were recovered when the burning .wreckage of a sleeping l car cooled, 12 hours after it had caught lire early on Wednesday while a train was crossing the Nevada desert.—Reuter.
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Northern Advocate, 18 June 1926, Page 5
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