DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. FIVE MEN KILLED. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.]
[ueuter's t, ltcgkams.] Adelaide, April 22. A FATAL railway accident occurred on the Hcrjratt Spring* and Stransrwnys Station section of the Northern Railway ex ten. si on, now id course of construction, about eight o'clock lait night. A train, consisting of an engine and eleven trucks, having on board thirty eight ball.ast men, was returning, when on reaching an embankment the driver of the engine noticed some cattle on the line, but too l.vte to slop the train, fhioe cattle were killed, and, getting under the wheels, derailed the tram. Seven trucks were ovei turned, five of the occupants being killed instantaneously, and three others injured. The guard of the train bad a miraculous escape. The bodies of the ballast men killed were found in a fearfully mangled condition.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2152, 24 April 1886, Page 2
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140DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. FIVE MEN KILLED. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2152, 24 April 1886, Page 2
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