 The single reel drama , approximately 985 feet long , was released on June 24 , 1910 . Advertisements played up the wreck of the $ 40 @,@ 000 train car while a positive review in The Moving Picture World praised the well @-@ managed production 's prison and track wreck scenes , but remarked that the improbable story was purely fantastical . One of the more dramatic articles to appear in The Moving Picture World included reference to the film while playing up the dramatic element describe the footage and the filming of the wreck . It states : " ... The scenes were portrayals of a train crash and they give you startling before @-@ and @-@ after wreck views . They made you shiver when they showed you the fate that came to a car full of passengers - sudden , cruel and without warning . They made you shiver ; ... And you thanked God that the thing before you was only a picture on the screen ! " Known advertisements for the film included theaters in Rhode Island and Indiana . Records show that film made it to Australia , with one Launceston , Tasmania newspaper showing an advertisement on January 30 , 1911 . 
