FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION.
TWENTY-SIX PEOPLE KILLED. Received May 22, 12.30 p.m. BRUSSELS, May 21. A railway collision occurred near Antwerp. Twenty-six dead were extricated, and others are pinned down by the wreckage. LATER PARTICULARS. Received May 22, 9 p.m. BRUSSELS. May 22. The details in connection with the Antwerp collision atiow chat the victims were mutilated and crushed in a ghastly manner, several being decapitated. A severed hand was found, the clenched fingers whereof held tight an ear which had been torn off in the frantic struggle. The wreckage was a tangled mass. Forty persons were killed and eighty injured. The signalman fbd after the disaster.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9096, 23 May 1908, Page 5
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106FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9096, 23 May 1908, Page 5
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