TRAIN DISASTER.
CROWDED SCOTCH EXPRESS WRECKED.
MANY LI\ES LOST,
PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Reoeived 9 20 p.m,, Sept. 20. London, Sept. 20. A crowded Sooteh express from King s Cross, instead of stopping at Grantham — the brakes apparently failing to act —went slightly beyond the station, goiDg towards a ourve, where the engine and tender paited from the reet of the train and top* pled over a ateep embankment. The wrench oaueed several coaohes to derail. They stiuek the coping of the bridge and followed tho engine down the embankment. Several are ablazs ana burning furiously. Up to ihe time of telegraphing 10 baa been extricated, including five dead, two ladies and three gantlemeD. Two others, who are dead, have been seen in the wreckage. The number of injured is unknown. The mail van’s superintendent is missing.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1866, 21 September 1906, Page 2
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