RAILWAY COLLISION IN THE UNITED STATES.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11995, 23 July 1907, Page 3

RAI LWAY COLLISION IN THE UNITED STATES.

35 EXCURSIONISTS &LUU&V. SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED. New York, July 21. A train with eight hundred excursionists on the Pere Parquette railway, near Sale-a, Michigan, dashed into a freight train coming from the opposite direction. Six out of eleven cars were destroyed, and 6o persona were killed, while scores were injuredr many critically. About 150 children were.among.the excursionists, but only a few were severely hurt. The victims were chiefly men.