A RAILWAY SMASH
TRUCKS BREAK AWAY (Australian Press Association). (Unitod Service.) (Received this day at 10 a.m.) ADELAIDE, Jan. 12. During shunting operations at Mount Lofty, a guards van and twenty-one trucks broke away and dashed down the line at a speed of eighty miles an hour. Four and a-half miles away the trucks were derailed and some were smashed to pieces. The track was uprooted. Pigs and sheep in the trucks, valued at £llOO, were killed. None of the train crew were aboard.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1929, Page 5
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84A RAILWAY SMASH Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1929, Page 5
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