RAILWAY FATALITIES.
TWO SUCCESSIVE ACCIDENTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. . London, August 21. This morning, a train conveying 50 workmen from London to Milton Range, halted at a station twe miles beyond Gravesend, where the London County Council are carrying out an extensive road construction and overran the platform at Milton, which is a temporary station and has no signal-box, owing to the fog. Workmen crossing the line after leaving the train on the wrong side did not notice a light engine approaching, which killed one man and cut off another man’s foot. During the confusion a second workmen’s train, in the absence of signals, telescoped the three rear carriages of the stationary train, in which the workmen were awaiting its return to the platform and were buried beneath the debris. Three were killed and 14 injured. Some workmen who leaped from the train fell into a canal adjoining the line.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1922, Page 5
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149RAILWAY FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1922, Page 5
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