RAILWAY COLLISION.
'OUTBURST OF PUBLIC INDIG-
NATION
(Per Pres3 Association.)
LONDON!, June 16. While the first section of the Boston to New, York express was chiang imgi engin <ef at Stamford ttoe second section crashed.'.into it.
Tiiei-ear carriage which Avais of
I the old' fashioned wooden type w-^s "smashed to splinters. Six pea-song ' were 'killed and twenty inj.ua-ed. { Tiiie tragedy has caused an .out- ! .ibmitfsit of public i'ndii2liia<tion, as it is the th.ii'teanth serious aiccidlemt thsij has occurred on the line in two years wMlo the death roll in that period j is forty jeight.
The "Interstate 'Commission preTfously iglatvie waarning! to tihe company of the danger of usin^gt wjap&en instead ioif ■ steel ■cai-'riagiefei. An offidtal inquifry Ms Veen iwi+i teted.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14555, 24 June 1913, Page 5
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121RAILWAY COLLISION. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14555, 24 June 1913, Page 5
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