TRAIN BOLTS
THIRTY-SIX TRUCKS WRECKED CREW JUMP OFF Sydney, May 11. A coal train bolted near Muswellbrook owing to failure of the brakes. The driver and fireman jumped off and escaped with minor injuries. Thirty-six. loaded trucks travelling at fifty miles an hour piled up in a mass of debris thirty feet high at the side of the permanent way. . The train crew would undoubtedly have been killed if they had remained on the footplates. FATAL TRAIN SMASH IN ITALY (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) Rome, May 10. A passenger train collided with thousands of tons of earth and two houses, which a mountain landslide due to rains hurled down on the railway line near Ascoli. The coachjes were overturned. Six corpses have been recovered from the debris. It will take five days to clear the line.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 189, 12 May 1928, Page 8
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136TRAIN BOLTS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 189, 12 May 1928, Page 8
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