RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR ANTWERP.
THE CAUSE OF THE COLLISION. LONDON, May 22. Later details in connection with .the railway "collision at Contich (six miles from Antwerp), in which forty ' persons were killed and eighty injured, show that the Brussels expires, through a mistake, turned on to a siding where a crowded pilgrim train was standing, The express engine was thrown on top of Ihe pilgrim train, crushing several carriages. A number of young girls dressed for their first communion were killed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9097, 25 May 1908, Page 5
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81RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR ANTWERP. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9097, 25 May 1908, Page 5
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