SHOCKING TRAIN ACCIDENT
PRECIPITATED INTO AN ABYSS. SOME KILLED MANY WOUNDED SIX HOURS TO REACH "WOUNDED. (By Electric Telegraph — Copyrignt.; (Reed 9.20 p.m.) CAPETOWN, April 24. A train accident, caused through" a truck becoming derailed fifty yards trom Blaauwkrautz fridge occurred to-day. The engine plunged into an abyss .dragging- the remainder of the train after it. Some were killed and many were wounded and caught on a ledge 120 ft 'flown. It took six hours to reacri them. The injured suffered terrible tortures. A little girl was caught by the foot in tEe forß of the bridge and hung Head downwards.
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Grey River Argus, 25 April 1911, Page 5
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101SHOCKING TRAIN ACCIDENT Grey River Argus, 25 April 1911, Page 5
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