SERIOUS RAILWAY COLLISION.
A MARVELLOUS ESCAPE.
PER PRESS ASSOCIATION Received 28, 0.51 a.tn.
Sydney, September 27. A serious railway smash occurred at Liwsod.
Owing to the breaking of the drawbar on a passenger carriage attached to a stock train on a steep grade, the driver left two passenger carriages and a brake van standing on the rails and [went on to the next station with the atock portion. Maanwhile the ordinary pi6senger train which was detained went to Worth Falls awaiting the arrival of the stock traio, and the porter being unaware of a portion being left on the line sent, the passenger train ah ad. It crashed into the two carriages and brako van standing on the line and smashed them to matchwood.
The colliding engine was badly damaged and with four carriages and a brake van left the rails.
None of the passengers were seriously injured, but one received a bruise on the leg. A drover sleeping in a carriage belonging to the stock train miraculously escaped as, after tho collision, he was taken out of the debris uninjured, excepting a slight gash on the cheek. The damage to rolling stock is very heavy.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 207, 28 September 1903, Page 3
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196SERIOUS RAILWAY COLLISION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 207, 28 September 1903, Page 3
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