TERRIBLE RAILWAY SMASH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8308, 11 December 1906, Page 5

TERRIBLE RAILWAY SMASH.

♦ FORTY-SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED. (Per Mall Steamer Sierra). CHICAGO, November 12. More than one half of the passengers on an immigrant train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad were killed or injured in a oolllfiion, to» day, between the passenger train aud a freight train near Woodville, Indiana. One .hundred and sixty five passengers wero on the train, and of these forty-seven were killed outright, or were burned tn death in the fire which broke out in the wreckage immediately after the collision. The names of all of the dead will probably never be known, as forty-Oyo oE the bodies were consumed in the flames or were so badly burnad that identiS oation is impossible. 'lhirty-eight people were injured, and several of these will die. Eighty others escaped, unhurt, but lost nearly all i their baggage and clothing. The disaster was caused by the blunder of some employee of the railroad company, but just where the blame lies has not yet toaen determined. The pasyenger train, which was loaded with Russian Jews, Servian? and Poles, all of them recent arrivals in this country, ana bound for Chicago or places in the north-west, was tha seaond section of the through train from Baltimore. Relief trains were at onca sent out from Sooth Ohiaago and from Valparaiso, Indiana, with overy available physioian; and all possible aid was given to the injured. Aflarge nuuber of relatives of passengers on the ill-fated train were in Uhicago awaiting their arrival and when the report of the caastrophe was ceived, the scenes around the Baltimore and Ohio Station were harrowing. Men were there who bad come to this country to eaoapa massacres ic Russia, and who after mouths of hard work had saved enough to pay the passage nf the members of their families, and their grief when they became aware that possibly all their saorifloes and efforts had resulted only in the death of those whom they sought to bring to them was pitiful in the extreme, Crowds of Russians and Polos waited around the depot all day waiting for news from Woodville, and when late in 'jhe afternoon a train oame in bearing thirty eight injured pas-, sengers, it was with the greatest difficulty that tho police were able ? to open a passage way for tbe wonnded.