TRAIN IN TASMANIA DERAILED
Crash Through Culvert
YOUNG GIRL KILLED Hobart, December 29. A girl, Sheila Lyons, aged 12, was killed and six persons injured on the north-west const of Tasmania when a train travelling from Burnie to Wym yard crushed through a culvert which had been partially washed away by heavy rain. Only a few passengers were aboard the train; otherwise, it is stated, the death roll would have been considerable. The engine toppled on its side and the tender plunged into a diteli and a composite car. carrying passengers, crashed heavily on its side. Miss Lyons had botli her legs severed, and Another girl, Betty Dowling, had one leg cut off gild the other, leg crushed and broken. Her condition is critical. Two other injured passengers are in a serious condition.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 82, 31 December 1934, Page 7
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133TRAIN IN TASMANIA DERAILED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 82, 31 December 1934, Page 7
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