SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Several Persons Killed. London, September 20. A serious railway accident, involving loss of life, took place yesterday at Grantham, in Lincolnshire, A crowded express .travelling from King’s Cross, London to Scotland, was to stop at Grantham, but apparently the brakes failed to act, and the train went slightly beyond the station to a curve. Here the engine and tender - parted from the rest of the train, and toppled over a steep embankment. The wrench caused several carriages to leave the rails, and they struck the coping of a bridge, and followed the engine down the,, embankment. j At the time f of several carriages were ablaze, and burning furiously. Ten persons had then been extricated from the debris, five of them—two women and three men —being dead. Two others among the wreckage were seen to be dead. The number of persons injured is unknown. The mail van superintendent is missing.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19060922.2.14
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3715, 22 September 1906, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
153SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3715, 22 September 1906, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in