MAIL TRAIN WAYLAID.
PASSENGERS WOUNDED
TROOPS EFFECT A RESCUE.
LOXDOX, February 23
An explosion on tho track stopped the mail train from Natal to Johannesburg near Heidelberg on the 20th. Three hundred Boers in hiding fired on the train and wounded five passengers. Troops arrived and repulsed the enemy.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 47, 25 February 1901, Page 5
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