TERRIBLE DISASTER
DETAILS OF INDIANA TRAIN WRECK. Reuter's Telegram. (Received March 2, 1.16 ».m.) ■ NEW YORK, February 28. Details of the Indiana train wreck show .that a Canadian train, travelling at fifty miles an hour, was derailed crossing the New York central track. The central train, travelling at a speed of sixty mile® on hour, plunged into the derailed coaches. Several were telescoped. A previous message stated: It is reported that between thirty and forty people were killed and scores injured by the wreck of two passenger trains near Porter, Indiana.
A cable message from Capetown states that Sir Edgar Walton has ao cepted the South African High Commissionerahip and has resigned hia seat in the Assembly,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10838, 2 March 1921, Page 5
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