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General.( hriaimaa week was unusually prolific of railroad KmaHlmp€ and the slaughter of human lift. A train on the Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburgh railroad was thrown down an embank* me it. The care falling upside down, they inline liately took fire, and, there being no meant* of egress, twenty-one persona were literally roasted to death. Many tithe re* were aerioualy woirdded. A train on the Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago railroad was thrown from the track by a broken rail and twenty persons injured. of which at least three will die, A ain;ii*r accident occurred to a passenger train near Cincinnati, resulting in the death of aer-oral persona. At Newton, Kansu.*, a train imbedded in a snow-drift was mu into by a freight tnL-n, by which two lives were lost. By an accident to the through train from Washington to Philadelphia, near Baltimore, many persons *ere injured, two of them fatally. Men and animate were frozen to death on a train blocked up in Indiana by a lack of water, which had Congealed all along the Ime of the rosd. Still other trains wore frozen up eiae-where, and steamers were damaged by the rise of the water hi the Ohio river. Many eaaee of t death by exposure were sported, and from all parte of the country come the intelligence of mte fun one*, constituting alto gather the most' kj c*- rr- ® -a *■*-; B P. ’4* TZ'V? r\ 4 *? M ^ n* -d -it?
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Plymouth Marshall County Republican
Plymouth, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 09, 1873
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