RAILWAY DISASTER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22052, 7 September 1933, Page 9

RAILWAY DISASTER

CARRIAGES TELESCOPED SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, September 5. (Received Sept. 6, at JO p.m.) A message from Binghampton states that 12 persons were killed and moro than a score injured to-night when a freight, train telescoped two passenger coaches of the fast Erie railroad train, cn route from Chicago to New York. A LATER MESSAGE. TWENTY-THREE DEATHS. BINGHAMPTON, September 5. (Received Sept. 6, at 11 p.m.) The death roll in the train disaster had reached at least 23 late to-night, while more than 100 were injured. WOODEN CARRIAGE CRUSHED. VICTIMS TERRIBLY MANGLED. NEW YORK, September 6. (Received Sept. 7, at 1 ( a.m.) One wooden car among a train of steel cars caused the appalling Binghampton disaster when it was crushed like a rotten nut. A freight milk train buried its nose eight feet into the rear of the stationary Chicago-Atlantic express, which had halted at an automatic signal. Passengers were mainly from New York and were returning from a holiday weekend at the Chicago World Fair. The wooden carriage, which held most of the dead, became a mass of timber pulp and most of the victims were beyond identification.