Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SYDNEY MINES, Nova Scotia--With more than 250 aboard, a mine train ran wild today down a mile of track deep into the Princess Colliery diggings to splinter finally against a mine wall at 60 miles an hour, killing 20 of its occupants and injuring 45 more...
Roscue crews hurrying down the narrow passageways to the wreckage picked up the mangled bodies of men who had jumped from the careening train and fallen under its wheels or were crushed against the walls. They dug in the wreckage and found more bodies and feared the tell would mount still higher...
Roland E. Peabody, managing director of the Cannon Mountain Tramway in Boston, says that extra trips will be made for Snow Train passengers. Reports from the area state that there are 19 inches of good, skiable snow on Cannon Mountain and about 12 inches in the Notch. The Cannon Mountain trail has been sidestepped over its entire length as has the Practice trail, and the upper half of the Taft trail. The Tramway is able to take 160 to 170 skiers to the heads of these trials each hour...
...Developing of special schools along lines of those at Annapolis and West Point to train youths for special jobs in public life and certain business assign...
PERPIGNAN, France-Spanish Frontier--The Loyalist Defense Ministry announced tonight at Barcelona that a train bearing 320 American "volunteers," demobilized from the Loyalist army, had been bombed twice by Insurgent planes between Pulgeerda and the French border...