MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
BOULDER HITS TRAIN. DRIVER KILLED, (United Press Aoaot iaiAon—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) BASLE, August 3. Loosened by a tropical downpour, a huge boulder was hurtled a thousand feet and hit an engine of a- St. Moritz train knocking it to the bottom of a gorge, killing the driver. Throe leading carriages were derailed and miraculously hung suspended over the side of the ravine. Every passenger was rescued uninjured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1931, Page 5
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75MIRACULOUS ESCAPE Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1931, Page 5
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