London, June 28.
We are gradually losing the reputation we had for immunity from railway accidents. This week there was a particularly disastrous train smash about midnight just outside Darlington Station which is an important junction on the line to Scotland and where there is a heavy] loop line for cross country trafic. Twenty-two people were killed, 3 men 17 women, a boy and girl, all residents of Durham; and 47 injured.
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