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[Reuter Telegrams.] PECULIAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT. IIOME, August T 9. 1 lie strangest of fatal railway accidents occurred when the Alilan express "‘is at Gastelloiid. Owing "to the heat many passengers were leaning out of the windows to get the breeze. A. goods train was passing from which an iron bar suddenly protruded from a loaded truck. Jt swept the crowded windows, gashing the passengers heads and arms so badly that five succumbed and many had to be sent to the hospital.
PILOT DEAD. LONDON, Auk. 19. Loiach, the pilot in tlic air linei crash is dead. B ERLIN ■ TRAIN DIS AST El?. BERITN, Aug. 10. Seven per.s«ns were killed mid fourteen injured, through the derailing of tlhe Berlin-Colofijue iia.sili.ing express near Lclirte. The train was travelling at 80 kilometers an hour at two in tlio morning, when the engine jumped tlio rails, and crashed down an emlonkment. Two coaches were telescoped. Rescue work was difficult owing to the darkness.
CENTRAL AMERICAN REVOLT. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. Tlio Stnto Department was advised on Thursday that the Nicaraguan Government was mobilising and despatching troops, “all over the country” to suppress rcvolutionnry outbreaks. SHOCKING MISHAP. DELHI, Aug. 19. At the Tata Steel Works. Jamshedpur, thirteen persons were killed, mid twelve seriously injured when the sling of a ladle containing 50 tons of metal emptying into a mixer snapped, pouring the metal on the workmen below. RAILWAY DISASTER. Blyß I/T N, Aug. 19. Nineteen were killed in the Lehr railway disaster
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1926, Page 3
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