TRAIN BROKE SN TWO.
2 FATALITIES: 8 INJURED. 'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.' (United Press Association.) Melbourne, February 25. An accident occurred at Yarra Junction. An engine and ten trucks belonging to the Powell wood Process Company, were mounting an incline, when two trucks, one containing sixteen of the company’s employees, broke away. Six jumped out before the trucks gathered momentum. After travelling at a mad pace for some distance, the trucks overturned. Michael Curtain, one of the occupants, was killed. Francis Flynn seriously injured, and eight others slightly injured. /TJ . , n 7TB (Received 9.20 a.m.) Melbourne, February 26. Flynn succumbed to his injuries.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 5
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102TRAIN BROKE SN TWO. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 5
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