RUNAWAY EXPRESS.
CAIiIiIAGES HUKEED DOWN A STEEP EMBANKMENT. Lisbon, May 26. ' Eight persons were killed ami twentytwo were seriously injured in n terrible railway accident caused by the derailment of an express between Algarve and Lisbon to-day. The train, which was composed of thirty-five carriages, was descending a steep decline at the rate of between fifty and sixty miles an hour, when it ran off the rails. The carriages were hurled down a steep embankment, and lay in splintered heaps at the bottom. There were many women passengers in lire train who were imprisoned in the wreckage, and had to remain a long time before help arrived.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 18 July 1907, Page 4
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107RUNAWAY EXPRESS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 18 July 1907, Page 4
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