MAIL TRAIN SMASH.
FIVE CARRhAGES DERAILED, Received August 13, 3.50 p.m. London, August 14. Tim second portion of the Irish mail train from Euston was wrecked between T;lia\TOrth ami. Weedon. A connecting rod on'an engine on an adjoining sot of rails broke, and the Trish Mail's engines fouled the broken rod, and derailed five carriages, which overturned. Eight people weae killed and thirty injured. Received August 1(1, 12.5 a.m. Ijondon, August 1 1'. Mr. Arthur Lynch, M.P., and Lord Mounteagle were injured in the railway smash. Four storters in the mail van were killed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1915, Page 5
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94MAIL TRAIN SMASH. Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1915, Page 5
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