THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SCOTLAND. NINETY VICTIMS.
London, December 30. The officials on the Dundee side saw the train advancing- from the Fifeshire shore ; then there was a sudden flash of light extending 1 ovor the bridge and waterWondering at the non-arrival of the train, the officials traversed the bridge, and found a sudden gap in the centre where the train, counting of the engine, van, and six carriages were engulped in the water. Thirteen latticed girders, covering upwards of half-a-mile, had fallen. It is believed that the terrific force of the gale meeting the resistance of the passing train caused the disaster. No one was saved. It is nqw understood that the passengers numbered about ninety. The mails floated ashore, and much wreckage. Divers were employed searching for the bodies. A Government inquiry has been ordered. It now transpires that none of the passengers by the Edinburgh and Dundee trains, which fell through the Tay bridge, were saved. There were, in all, eighty victims. The gap in the bridge was half-a-mile long. The actual cause of the collapse in the structure is not known. An official inquiry will be held.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1173, 3 January 1880, Page 2
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191THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SCOTLAND. NINETY VICTIMS. Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1173, 3 January 1880, Page 2
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