TRAIN TRAGEDY
ON AMERICAN RAILWAY CARRIAGES CRASH INTO STREET. ALL ON BOARD KILLED OR INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright NEW YORK, July 12. Particulars of tho disaster to the colonial express on tho New York, Nowhaven, and Hartford Railroad show til at tho train struck a switch when travelling at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and leaped) over an embankment.
Five Pullman cars, a day ooach, and a baggage car crashed into the streets of Bridgeport.
Twelve persons were killed and forty-four injured.
A young machinist named King was driven insane by tho accident, although otherwise uninjured.
Tho train was late, and the engineer was endeavouring to make up for lost time.
Tho day coach was smashed to matchwood.
Evoryono on board tho train was either killed or injured.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7852, 14 July 1911, Page 7
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