SHREWSBURY RAILWAY FATALITY.
Received October 7, 10.39 a.m
LONDON, October 16.
At the inquest in connection with the Shrewsbury railway accident, two signalmen and a guard testified that the train was running away at fully sixty miles an hour, although the home and distance signals were at "danger."
(Nineteen persons were killed and forty injured, many severely, in the accident which befell the express on a viaduct at Shrewsbury.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8558, 18 October 1907, Page 5
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69SHREWSBURY RAILWAY FATALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8558, 18 October 1907, Page 5
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