SHREWSBURY RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
DRIVER ALLEGED TO HAVE • FALLEN ASLEEP. Received April 17, 9.41 a.m. LONDON, April 16. Inspector Yorke believer that Martin, the driver of the Shrewsbury express on October 15th, fell asleep at his post. A railway accident, involving loss of life and serious injury to several persons, occurred at Shrewsbury, between Crewe and Bristol, at 2 o'clock on the morning of October 15th. A London and North-Western Company's express was running between the places named, when at a sharp curve it was dera'led. Fifteen coaches were destroyed. Nineteen persons were killed and forty injured.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9068, 18 April 1908, Page 5
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96SHREWSBURY RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9068, 18 April 1908, Page 5
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