RUNAWAY LOCOMOTIVE
CRASH on OAKLAND MOLE. TWENTY-HTE DEATHS. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. SAN FRANCISCO, December 5. (Received December 6, at 1.20 a.m.) A serious transport accident occurred early this morning, when twenty-five persons were killed Inrotigh the crashing of trains on the Oakland mole. Three trains from different directions were hurrying to the waterside with their coaches crowded -with passengers en route to catch the ferry boats, when a runaway locomotive literally tore through two oars, killing, maiming, and throwing the passengers about. Some were hurled 40ft in the air.—Sydney ‘Sun’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18809, 6 December 1924, Page 4
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