AMERICAN RAILWAY SMASH.
NEARLY A HUNDRED CASCUALTIES.
New York, August 26. A passenger train on the Lehigh Valley railroad jumped the track. Two* cars rolled over an embankment sixty feet into a creek. Thirty people were killed, and sixty injured. All the occupants Pf’thU di’tfitfg-Car ’' 'killed instantly. Many veterans returning from the Grand Army of the Republic encampment, held at Rochester, were among the victims. The train was running fast to make up lost time. A defective rail caused the disaster.
(Received 28, 8.40 a.m.) New York, August 27. The Lehigh Valley disaster death roll is sixteen. The accident was duo to a broken rail.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 10, 28 August 1911, Page 6
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