MOUNTAIN RAILWAY DISASTER.
TO A TROOP TRAIN. TWENTY KILLED AND HUNDREDS INJURED. Received Feb. 24, 8.30 p.m. Milan, Feb. 20. A troop train, after climbing a steep ascent to 13,000 feet near Trieste, detached seven coaches containing 450 soldiers. The coaches, while descending the slope, owing to a shunting error rushed headlong for ten miles in ten minutes, and crashed into the frie3te terminus, twenty being killed and eighty seriously injured, while 250 suffered lesser injuries.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc,
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1919, Page 5
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80MOUNTAIN RAILWAY DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1919, Page 5
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