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Show TWENTY-ONE KILLED IN WRECK ON NEW HAVEN White Mountain Express Crashes Into Bar Harbor Limited Fog Cause of Disaster. New Haven, Conn. Twenty-one persons were killed and nearly fifty injured, some of wnom may die, in a rear-end collision shortly before 7 o'clock Tuesday morning on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, rail-road, six miles north of here. The first section of the White Mountain express, bound for New York, speeding along at probably forty for-ty miles an hour in a thick fog, rushed rush-ed by a danger signal, it is said, and crashed into the rear of the second secton of the Bar Harbor express, standing 10P feet beyond the block signal. The Whitt, Mountain engine cleaved through two rear Pullman cars, both of wood, splitting them in two, and tossing their wreckage and three score of mangled human beings, some alive, some dgid, on either side of the track. The third tar, also of wood, and occupied oc-cupied by forty boys on their way from a summer camp at Monmouth, Me., was lifted into the air and almost completely off the track. The car fell on its side, crumpled up, crushed two of the boys to death and injured several sev-eral others. Practically all the passengers on both trains were retuning home from summer vacations, aau all but two of a camping party of nine, guests of S. Crozer Fox of Elkins Park, Pa., re- Fox was among those killed. No one was hurt in the Wlhite Mountain train. |