A TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
A TRAIN WRECKED. MAN! PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH. |PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.J Received 18, 9.50 a.m. London, June 17. Despite a danger signal, an express going to Plymouth wrecked the rear carriage of a special race train standing at Slough railway station. Four persons were killed and seventy injured. Received 19,1.40 a.m. London, June 18. The scene at Slough was terrible. Gas escaping in the carriages fired the wreckage, and. many were burned bo death, while steam from the express engine scalded others. Mrs. Bernard Baere, the actress, was among the passengers, and had a marvellous escape. She received no injuries, but is prostrated by the nervous shock,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 104, 19 June 1900, Page 3
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111A TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 104, 19 June 1900, Page 3
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