US Train Wreck

Series

Series Name
Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.
40/38
Date Released
9 May 1940
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Old Contemptibles March Again
  2. 2British Women with the Army
  3. 3Earl of Athlone Visits Canadian Troops
  4. 4RAF Clay Pigeon Shooting
  5. 5Miss Streamline 1940
  6. 6New Tractor Demonstrated
  7. 7World’s Fair 1940
  8. 8Professor Koht is Confident
  9. 9British Troops from Norway
  10. 10Cypriot Troops over There
  11. 11Namsos Bombed
  12. *First Fox Hunt in California
  13. *Horses for France
  14. *Floods in the Argentine
  15. *Timber Fire in Dublin
  16. *US Train Wreck

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary
29 people are killed and many more injured when a train crashed from the rails along the Mohawk River. New York State’s worst train disaster for 30 years.
Local distribution only
Dublin release only
Keywords
Railways; Accidents and disasters
Locations
New York; Mohawk River
Length of story (in feet)
66
Story extras:
Film clip
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Notes
Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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