BRAKES FAIL TRAIN RUSHES DOWN INCLINE.
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HOME, August 21.—A hair-raisin;; experience befell the passengers on a train at the Boreua incline, at the top of which the brakes failed and the train ran back. It gathered speed till it reached a pace of ninety miles an hour. All tho passengers jumped clear, but the conductor stuck to' his post and was killed when tho train plunged into a ravine.—-A. and N.Z. Cable,
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Evening Star, Issue 19026, 22 August 1925, Page 12
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