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Title: Christian herald
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
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m the Cobbossee SummtCamp at Monmouth, Me., buried in the tvinsted and splintered wooden ai;glass wreckage. The engineer of the death-dealing locomotive and his firemaistuck to their posts and escaped injury. So did all the passengers in tl,White Mountain Express, all of whom, however, were thrown from their sletby the collision, and found a shower of glass raining from every windo:beside them. Passengers from the day coach and five sleepers—all wooden-of the White Mountain train, as well as those in the forward cars of the stallfBar Harbor Express, rushed, scantily clad, into the wakening day, to find -scene of strangely silent desolation. The work of rescuing the injured and removing the dead was begun imin<,diately. Trainmen were rushed to the nearest stations to summon help frofNew Haven and from IMeriden. From both of these cities special trains anautomobiles, loaded with doctors and nurses, were hurried to the scene of thj iiy It.ong Uom tl.of ^i Jirfsre m to loo^iieli:m Tb
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l%>t>vriirlit \y Dtitlt-rwood A Umlorwwxl AFTER THE WRECK ON THE NEW YORK. NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILW.WNEAR WALLINGFORD. CONN. wreck. A trolley car of the Suburban Connecticut Raihvay was stopped onits regular run from New Haven and turned into an ambulance car to take thiinjured to the New Haven hospital.s. Among the dead there were two of tinboys who were returning from the summer camp in Maine. Several member^of prominent families in the large Eastern cities were among the dead andinjured. An inquiry into the cause and circumstances of the wreck was immcdiatel;started by the coroner of the county in which it occurred. This inquiry wa ,held behind closed doors and in conjunction with the official investigation orthe railway officials. Up to the time of the preparation of this i.ssue of THEChristian Hkrald for printing, no newspaper representatives had beenallowed to hour any of the testimony given, or to talk with any of the officialsof the road or the employees who were on

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