Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — CRUSHED BY TONS OF STONE. [ARTICLE]

CRUSHED BY TONS OF STONE.

Horrible Accident to an Excurs on Train— Nine) y People Known to Be Killed. Potenza, Italy, Oct. 21.—1 n the landslide which occurred near Laterza, yesterday, fifty meters of rock fell upon and crushed ten cars crowded with excur sionists returning from tte fetes at Naples. The scene of the disaster is in a remote district, and the telegraph wires were broken by the falling rock and earth, and the summoning of help was delayed two hours, Meanwhile the scene was most horrible, the moans of the dying mingling with the shrieks of thß injured. Already, ninety dead bodies and seventy injured persons have been taken out of the wreck, and the work of excavating is proceeding as rapidly as possible.