Train Fatalities.
JRASHEDTHROUGH BRIDGE ON THE BANKS OF THE WABASH [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] J, United Press Association. I (Received 8.10 .a.m.) New York, April 6. Three persons were killed *and thirty-five injured when a Wabash passenger train crashed through a bridge over the Wabash river at Attica, Indiana.
The engine, a baggage car, and a day coach dropped into the water. The coacli was crowded, and the majority of passengers were injured, but none were killed.
Tho bridge had been weakened by a freight smash earlier, when the engineer was crushed under the engine, the fireman scalded to death, and a baggageman crushed under an
avalanche of trunks.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 90, 7 April 1914, Page 5
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