MOUNTAIN CRASH
FAST AMERICAN EXPRESS DERAILED THIRTY KILLED AND FIFTY INJURED. EVIDENCE OF SABOTAGE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, August 13. The crack eighty miles an hour streamlined express City of San Francisco struck a rock in the Nevada mountains, and was derailed. Thirty persons were killed and fifty injured. - The accident occurred on a bridge. Fourteen carriages plunged 30 feel into the river below. It was believed at first that a rock had fallen from the canyon wall, but the engineer later found that an angle bar had been removed from the track, causing the rails to spread. The injured include an Australian women who has a broken back and a broken leg. Her condition is serious.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1939, Page 5
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124MOUNTAIN CRASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1939, Page 5
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