AMERICAN RAILWAY SMASH
PASSENGERS BURNT TO DEATH. SOME FEARFUL EXPERIENCES. United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraphs—Copyright. ■ NEW ITORK, March 17. A. w«st bound California express collided in a blizzard with a- local train at•Pueblo, Colorado." Forty people were killed, fifteen of whom were incinerated* and many more were injured. Numerous thrilling rescues were effected, but one man, wedged in a window, while writhing in the flames, asked to be shot. The roof, however, soon fell on liis head, killing "him. 1 One of those who were rescued saw his family of ten burnt. Another passenger escaped from the wreckage, «xcept that one of his feet was pinioned. Seeing the flames were approaching he, for a hatchet and desperately tried to sever his foot by chopping, wlen the flames overwhelmed Mm.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12927, 19 March 1906, Page 5
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129AMERICAN RAILWAY SMASH Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12927, 19 March 1906, Page 5
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