EXPRESS OVERTURNS
FIFTY DEATHS; HUNDREDS HURT. An express train on the Philadelphia .and Reading railroad overturned, and fell down an embankment, while running at a high speed between Hammonton, New Jersey, and Camden (opposite Philadelphia, on the Delaware river), thirty miles away. Fifty persons are reported killed, and several hundred injured.—Central News. According to a Reuter message from New York, “nine persons are known to have been killed, but,” it is added, “it is feared that the death-roll may be increased.” The express,, says the message, was loaded with excursionists, and was travelling at 70 miles an hour when it ran into an open switch set for a freight train. TUe express ploughed ahead for 60ft, and then crashed down a 25ft embankment. Some 75 persons, badly injured, are in hospital. The scenes of suffering among the victims are described as hieing terrible. The Minister for Lands and Forests stated that last year Quebec province lost over £2,000,000 by forest fires, and that 800,000 acres were burnt down.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11293, 19 August 1922, Page 10
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168EXPRESS OVERTURNS New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11293, 19 August 1922, Page 10
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