RAILWAY ACCIDENT
KXGINK AND 25 TRUCKS DERAILED. Sydney, December 9. A railway smash occurred in the Blue Mountains. A portion of a goods train broke away on the Zigzag and ran backwards. H collided with a gools train that was standing at Clarence siding. The engine and twenty-live trucks were derailed and badly smash-
A portion of the train caught lire, but the Haines were soon extinguish-
Two guards, an engine-driver and » passenger were injured, bill none seriously.
DEATH OF THE 'M AUD. PASSENGERS' WKAU'LOCS ESCAPE. Received 10, 0.4 oa.ni. Sydney, December fl. (luiird Costello has dinl of the injuries he received in tile 111 - Mountain accident. The passenger, had a miraculous escape. The runaway vehicle dashed down a grade of one in forty at a terriiic pace. The passenger cars were at the end of the train. When tliie breakaway occurred the derailment of some wagons in front of the cars stayed the onward progress, and saved the lives of the passengers. The train was laden with copper, wool and chall'. The wool burned fiercely. When the (ire broke out hundreds of men who Were working on a deviation line threw earth on the tire and extinguished it.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 297, 10 December 1908, Page 2
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199RAILWAY ACCIDENT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 297, 10 December 1908, Page 2
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