PANIC IN WRECKED TRAIN.
SIXTEEN KILLED AND SCORES INJURED. BIG SMASH CAUSED, WHEN LIGHTNING TWISTS RAILS. Ey Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.—Reuter's Telegrams. (Received June 17, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 16. At least sixteen persons were killed and scores were injured when a passenger train was wrecked near Hackettstown, New Jersey, early this morning, during an electrical storm. . The tracks were twisted by lightning and undermined by rains and caused the smash. The passengers were mostly aliens, who intended sailing to-day for Europe. • ~T h<p were asleep when the crash came, and fought madly in the steam-filled cars. . e"o ter :l .' Jv l ices , frora Hackettstown state that 29 are dead and 69 are injured. A number of those injured may die.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17566, 17 June 1925, Page 1
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