A RUNAWAY TRAIN.
_ - - - ONE KLILED, SEVERAL INJURED. By Tolct,'ra.]>li.--ri'OKS AKweintion.- OopyrlU'm. Received February 25. 10.45 p.m. Melbourne, Tuesday. A fatal accident, occurred at Yarra junction. An engine and ten trucks belonging to the Powell Wood Process Company was mounting an incline. Two trucks, one containing nixtoen of the company's employees. broke away. Six men jumped out before the truck gathered momentum. After travelling a short distance the truck made pace and eventually overturned. Michael Curtain, one of the occupants, w as killed, and Francis Flynn seriously injured. Eight others were slightly injured.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 545, 26 February 1913, Page 5
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92A RUNAWAY TRAIN. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 545, 26 February 1913, Page 5
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