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Train crash kills 8, injures 200
Toxic fumes chases thousands from homes
Thursday, January 6, 2005 Posted: 8:40 PM EST (0140 GMT)
GRANITEVILLE, South Carolina (AP) -- A freight train carrying chlorine gas struck a parked train early Thursday, killing eight people and injuring at least 200 others, nearly all of them sickened by a toxic cloud that persisted over this small textile town at nightfall.
Authorities ordered all 5,400 people within a mile of the crash to evacuate in the afternoon because chlorine was continuing to leak and the gas was settling near the ground as temperatures dropped. They were unsure when the gas leak might be sealed.
-CNN.com
Read rest of story here: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/06/train.wreck.ap/index.html
Toxic fumes chases thousands from homes
Thursday, January 6, 2005 Posted: 8:40 PM EST (0140 GMT)
GRANITEVILLE, South Carolina (AP) -- A freight train carrying chlorine gas struck a parked train early Thursday, killing eight people and injuring at least 200 others, nearly all of them sickened by a toxic cloud that persisted over this small textile town at nightfall.
Authorities ordered all 5,400 people within a mile of the crash to evacuate in the afternoon because chlorine was continuing to leak and the gas was settling near the ground as temperatures dropped. They were unsure when the gas leak might be sealed.
-CNN.com
Read rest of story here: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/06/train.wreck.ap/index.html