RAILWAY SMASHES
THE AUSTRALIAN ACCIDENT LAST VICTIM IDENTIFIED. Praia Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, June 13. The hitherto unidentified victim of Ihe railway smash has now been identified as 'Finest Cecil Hewitt, of Sydney. All the injured are improving. SOUTH AFRICAN DISASTER DEATH ROLL OF SEVENTEEN. CAPE TOWN, June 11. Two of those who were injured in the railway smash at Salt River have succumbed to their injuries. The death roll is now seventeen. —Reuter. [The accident was duo to a coupling breaking, the three rear coaches of the express dashing into the stanchions of an overhead bridge. The scene of the disaster is an important junction for the main and suburban linos.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19275, 14 June 1926, Page 5
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116RAILWAY SMASHES Evening Star, Issue 19275, 14 June 1926, Page 5
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