TRAIN DISASTER
CABLE_NBWS United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.
SEVERAL CARRIAGES WRECKED. ELEVEN BODIES IvECOVERED. (Received January 24, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, January 23. A disastrous collision occurred on the Taff Vale Railway, near Pontypridd, in Glamorganshire, Wales. A train, containing throe hundred passengers, overtook and dashed into a coal train. Several carriages were wrecked, and the front guard's van was hurled on the top of the. first of the telescoped carriages. The driver and fireman of the pas-r senger train were thrown on to an embankment unhurt. , Councillors Tom George, Tom Harris and W. Morgan,; members of the excutive of the Miners' Association, who were proceeding to attend a meeting at Cardiff, and the Rev. AV. Powell; a Methodist minister, were among the killed.- .-'■.;' ■'■■■■'■ ■'"■ . . The "bodies of.eight men. and three children have been recovered.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10147, 25 January 1911, Page 5
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135TRAIN DISASTER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10147, 25 January 1911, Page 5
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