LOCOMOTIVE TRAGEDY
NEW YORK, July 12.
During a fire which destroyed a logging camp at Comly mill, Tacoma, 17 men aboard a locomotive attempted to save a number of loaded lumber cars. The locomotive, however, left the undermined track and plunged headlong into the fire. The men were thrown alive into the flames. Fourteen escaped badly burned; three were burnt to ashes, and boy, who was caught by the foot under the overturned engine, was slowly roasted to death, his companions being too injured to assist him.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 24
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87LOCOMOTIVE TRAGEDY Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 24
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