Disaster on a Railway.
A TRAIN THROWN INTO A RIVER. A train from Bilbao to Barcelona got derailed while crossing the Nalv.o bridge, and fell into the Najerilla river, thirty feet below. Thirty passengers were killed, and sixty injured, OVER A HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED. Later reports show that a hundred and ten persons were killed and a hundred injured in the railway disaster on the Najerilla river. The engine and twenty cars fell. Numbers of the passengers were drowned like rats. The injured were for hours among the wreckage before adequate help arrived. Several of the sufferers went insane.
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Manawatu Herald, 2 July 1903, Page 2
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99Disaster on a Railway. Manawatu Herald, 2 July 1903, Page 2
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