MISHAP TO AN EXPRESS
PASSENGER COACH JUMPS RAILS SIXTEEN PERSONS INJURED MELBOURNE, Friday. The Adelaide express met with an accident this morning 15 miles from Adelaide, near the Murray Bridge. One passenger coach left the rails at a soft spot, and the mail van next to the engine was seriously damaged. Sixteen passengers were injured, none of them seriously. The accident was caused by storm water from a small creek having washed out the filling under the line, so that after the engine had crossed the spot the rails subsided. One carriage was overturned and two others were sent off the metals. Today’s express from Melbourne will be dispatched as usual. The passengers will be transferred at the break, if the line has not been restored by the morning.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 9
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129MISHAP TO AN EXPRESS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 9
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