RAILWAY SMASH
40 KILLED—IOO INJURED. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) MEXICO CITY, Feb. *4 It is estimated that forty are dead and a hundred injured in one of the worst railway accidents in the history of Mexico.
A passenger train was bound from Tampico to Monterey when the axle of the tender broke, throwing the train off the track. •
Most of the killed occupied secondclass wooden coaches, which were smashed to splinters.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1927, Page 7
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