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WRECK OF A CIRCUS TRAINFive I'urioim Killed and Eleven Injured—Wild Animals Escape.Altoona, l*a., May ;it, — Walter Main's circus was wrecked on the Tyrone and Clearfield branch of the lVnnsylvania railway at Vail station, 5 miles north of Tyrone, at 5:110 o'clock Tuesday morning.The circus was en route to Lewis-town from Ihmtsdale. The engineer lost control of the train when going down the mountain anti it jumped the track when running at a speed of 40 miles per hour, throwing fourteen cars over a :0-foot embankment. The most of the animals art hurt and a number escaped to the woods.
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Nappanee, Indiana, US

Wed, May 31, 1893

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