A train crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least 100 people and injured more than 200.
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Divers searched the Mississippi River for bodies today among the submerged cars and twisted steel left by a deadly interstate bridge collapse, their hopes of finding survivors having dimmed.
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Authorities early today lowered the death toll to four but warned the final number could change as divers comb the wreckage for as many as 30 people still missing.
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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica
Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.
Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors
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