HIT BY BOULDER
TRAIN IN THE ALPS
ENGINE THROWN INTO GORGE
PASSENGERS ESCAPE
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ...... (Received 4th August,-9.30 a.m.) ■ BASLE, 3rd August. Loosened by a tropical downpour, a huge boulder hurtled down a thousand feet and hit the engine of the St. Moritz train, knocking it to the bottom of. a gorge and killing the driver. The throb leading carriages were derailed and miraculously hung suspended over the side of a ravine. Every j passenger was rescued uninjured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 5
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81HIT BY BOULDER Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 5
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