FIFTY PEOPLE HURT
SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT. SLEEPERS HURLED IN AIR. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, December 23. A hundred and fifty persons were mowed down, and fifty were injured, four fatally, when railway sleepers on a work egr were hurled on to the platform in an underground station, which was crowed with women and children. The work train was speeding by tbo station when one tie, projecting out, hit a steel pillar, catapulting the load on to the waiting passengers, chiefly Christmas shoppers. Twenty-three persons were taken to hospital.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1931, Page 5
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