A RAILWAY SMASH.
ENGINE LEAVES THE RAILS AND WRECKS TRAIN. FOUR PERSONS KILLED. (Received Oct. 4, 10.16 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 4. The engine of the New Milford exT'ss for I'addingtcn jumped the metals when approaching Loughor bridge. Three carriages were completely wrecked, ami two others fell over in embankment into a field, while a third lodged across the rails of the down line. '1 he driver and fireman, and a Nonconformist minister named Vallard and another passenger were killed, and twenty-five persons injured, some of them severely.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 5 October 1904, Page 3
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87A RAILWAY SMASH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 5 October 1904, Page 3
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