AMERICAN EXPRESS
30 PEOPLE KILLED, 50
INJURED
TRACK INTERFERENCE
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrißht.)
(Received August 14, 9 a.m.)
SAN FRANCISCO, August 13
The crack streamlined express "City of San Francisco," which travels at 80 miles an hour, was derailed in the Nevada Mountains. 30 people being killed and 50 injured. The accident occurred on a bridge. Fourteen carriages plunged 30 feet into a river. At first it was believed that a rock had fallen on to the rails from the wall of the canyon, but an engineer later found that an angle bar had been removed from the track, causing the rails to spread. Those seriously injured include Mrs. L. Viola Tomlin, of Australia, who is suffering from a broken back and a broken leg.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 38, 14 August 1939, Page 9
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