TRAIN WRECKED.
RUMS WfSO A: RIMJK^LIDE. ;.' (Received. ■•• At Point, Idaho, a freight train, consisting of sixty cars, struck a rock slide on. the Great Northern Rjailiway. The engine rolled over am embankment, and 1 three oars were, wrecked; ■ ■■ " '■ ■ .". ■•■ The engine-driver,. fireman,"*' and biukesimian were killed. A huge quantity of rock that had been loosened during excavation work collapsed, completely blocking the line. Into this obstruction the train tan.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10593, 27 March 1912, Page 5
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68TRAIN WRECKED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10593, 27 March 1912, Page 5
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