Railway Accident in Westralia.
A serious railway accident has occurred at Broad Arrow. The northern goldfields express was approaching the station, and when the engine and first carriage bad passed the points safely, the second carriage, containing 80 passengers, split the points and toppled over. The four remaining carriages, containing many passengers, swerved on to the loop line, luckily keeping the rails. „ Six passengers were injured, namely, Martin Nicholson, who received a compound fracture of the collarbone and a lung being penetrated, and whose condition is serious; T. J. Stanton, who received an injured spine ; Mesdames Williams, Sharp and Phillips and Miss Warner, who received injuries to the head besides a severe shock. The official theory is that the accident was caused by a failure to look the points, the vibration causing them to shift out.
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Manawatu Herald, 4 August 1903, Page 2
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136Railway Accident in Westralia. Manawatu Herald, 4 August 1903, Page 2
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