MIDLAND-SCOTCH EXPREBS
RUNS INTO LANDSLIDE
'Received This Dav at 12.25 p.m.) LONDO January 20. The Midland-Scotfish express, from Loudon, ran into a landslide at Lazonby. The engine overturned and a carriage was telescoped. Six persons were killed and about twenty injured. The train was full-speeding at dusk when the driver noticed a huge bank dropping on the. line. The engine became embedded and derailed. The heavy trjtiin forded the foremost, coatih at right -angles across the rails being smashed to atoms. Heroic rescuers did ifijrst aid 'work assisted ,hy .military officers and nurses aboard.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1918, Page 3
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