The Archive · 1934

FIVE DIE IN US. TRAIN WRECK Guttenberg

Five persons were killed and an undetermined number of passengers Injured when a Milwaukee train was wrecked here to-day.

Sweeping around @ curve at a fast rate of speed, the train left the tracks and toppled over small. bridge into creek, the engine exploding. The engine driver and the firemen' w instantly killed and it was later revealed that three of the passengers had also died in the wreck.

Breakdown gang# were despatched the scene of the. wreck within ten minutes after it had occurred while the injured, after nit given first-aid wreatment, were removed to hospital.

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