RAILWAY TRAGEDIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7866, 31 July 1911, Page 5

RAILWAY TRAGEDIES

IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA CARS ROLL DOWN AN EMBANKMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, July 28. An excursion brain on tho Lebigh Valley railroad, weas derailed, and tbo Pullman cam reifled down an .embankment. Fifty persons were injured. . One woman may die, A HEAD-CiN COLLISION. FIFTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. (Received Jtdy 30, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 29. A crowded excursion train met a passenger train in a head-on collision on ibe Bangor-Aroc stock railway, near Boston. Fifteen, persons are reported dead and thirty injured. EXPRESS RUNS INTO EMPTY TRAIN. THIRTY PASSISNGERS INJURED. LONDON, July 29. Tho Birminghaim-Llanduclno express ran into an emp'ty train at Crewe, at a speed of twenty miles an hour. Thirty passengers were injury!, chiefly by falling luggage. The wreckage isought fire, and the firemen had difficulty in preventing burning debris of the empty train from setting fire, to the passenger train.