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A Frightful Accident

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
September
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

liOXDON, Sept 17.- A dreadf ui collision oc jurred ye'sterday on the Midland railway by ■'hich twenty-three persons were killed and sixty injured. A train ñlled with excursionists who were going to Doncaster to witness the raoes was standing on the crossing a mile from Doncaster while the tickets were being collected, when the Xiverpool express dashed into it The guard-box was smashed to atoms and the first carriage of the Liverpool train was telesooped by the next and broken into splinters. It was a long time before the injured and dying who were wedged in the ruins coulil be rescued. Many oí the injured can not recover. The disaster was caused by defective signaling. "Losdos, Sept. 19.- The latest returns from the scène of the horrible disaster near Doncaster go to show that twenty-eigl)f. passengers were killed, while of the many wounded several are 'expected to die.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register