REMARKABLE TRAIN ACCIDENT.
An accident of a most remarkable kind, and on 3 that was only narrowly saved from being a great disaster, occurred on tha Brooklyn Elevated Railway in New Yorlc on Sunday,. March 30th. As an electri-. train ; was swiftly rounding a sharp curve, one of the cars left the track and cams'to a standstill, with the front portion of tha car jutting out over the roadway. S > evanly ba'anced on the edge of the railroad was the vehicle that if it had gone forward another foot nothing could have pre vented it, crushing down into the street below with fearful consequences. The car contained forty passengers, among3t whom were a number of ladies, and for some time their position was one of utmost peril, for they were hanging literally between life and death. The passengers in the part of the car which projected over the roadway made a rush for the opposite end, and this nat'iral action on their part probably saved the lives of all in the car by increasing the balance of weight, which prevented the car from falling, and after a short time all were safely rescued.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9092, 19 May 1908, Page 3
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193REMARKABLE TRAIN ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9092, 19 May 1908, Page 3
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