Terrible Railway Collision
SCENES OF AGONY. A MAN’S DESPERATE RESORT. Per United Press Association. \ By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, j NEW YORK, March 17. j Received 18th, 4.80 p.m. The west bound California express collided with a local train et Pueblo, Colorado. Forty were killed, and fifteen of them incinerated, a fid many more were injured. There were numerous thrilling rescues, hut one man, wedged in a window and writhing in the flames, asked to he shot. The roof, however, soon fell on iris head, kjtiling him. One of the rescued saw his family of ten burnt, Another escaped from the wreckage except that his foot got pinioned. Seeing the flames approaching he called for a hatchet ami desperately tried to sever his foot by chopping it off when the flames over whelmed him. The collision occurred tin a blizzard.
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Southland Times, Issue 19768, 19 March 1906, Page 2
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138Terrible Railway Collision Southland Times, Issue 19768, 19 March 1906, Page 2
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