GREAT TRAIN SMASH.
SIGNALS IGNORED
ENGINE DRIVER’S LAPSE.
TEN PERSONS KILLED
(Australian mid N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received December It, 12 noon.
NEW YORK, December 10
Ten persons were killed in a .sensational wreck of the Twentieth Century, Limited, near Buffalo before daylight. The first soc Lion of America’s greatest train was speeding westward at GO miles an hour when Hie driver saw an automobile across (lie track ahead. The chauffeur leaped out and was not seen again, and the train crashed into the motor ear, which derailed tile locomotive.
The second section of the Twentieth Century was successfully halted h-alf a mile back.
The third''section of the train, however, took no notice of the caution signal two miles back, and when it reached a position half a mile behind Ibe second, the trainman burned a positive stop signal in the face of the engineer.
Notwithstanding all these precautions, the engineer, John Patterson, crashed info the real' coach of the second section, killing nearly all the sleeping passengers.
Patterson admits that lie saw the signals and cannot explain why he disregarded them. He had been on this run for 25 years and never before had a serious accident.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15865, 11 December 1923, Page 5
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