VICTORIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT
A NARROW ESCAPE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, September •&>. The train was a mixed one. The accident was caused by a truck jumping the rails. It travelled two hundred yards before the coupling broke, and then left the line, dragging another with it over the embankment. The following truck and two passenger cars continued until they struck a bridge, when the truck and a passenger car, containing eighteen passengers, toppled thirty feet into a gullv. The body of the car left the undercarriage, and, the top dropping off, the passengers were thrown clear out. Hail the heavy under-carriage fallen wjtii the ear the consequences would liave been much more serious.
Sixteen persons were injured, the most serious cases being broken arms, cuts ,ind bruises.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 82, 27 September 1911, Page 5
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126VICTORIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 82, 27 September 1911, Page 5
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