IN NICK OF TIME
Train Disaster Averted
“WILD WEST” WRECKERS
(Rec. February 2, 9 p.m.)
Vienna, February 1
An attempt to wreck the OstendVienna express was discovered' in the nick of time to save the train carrying hundreds of passengers from plunging over a steep embankment in the Vienna forest.
The driver luckily sighted an obstruction when travelling at 70 miles an hour and pulled up on the brink of disaster. The engine was derailed, but nobody was hurt. The obstruction consisted of a vice clamping a piece of rail to the line. It is believed that the object was a holdnpon Wild West lines.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 110, 3 February 1931, Page 9
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