DISASTER IN NEW YORK
ELEVATED TRAIN FALLS IN STREET. EIGHT PERSONS KILLED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, June 26. (Received June 26, at 8.30 p.m.) Two cars of an elevated train toppled off the railway structure and fell 30ft to the street at the busiest shopping corner in Brooklyn while the train was crowded. The first reports stated that six persons were dead and a score were injured. It is believed that the accident was due to the rails at a sharp curve spreading under the intense heat. (Received June 26, at 10.40 p.m.) The casualties were eight persons killed and 70 injured.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18899, 27 June 1923, Page 7
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