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TERRIBLE DISASTER, TWO TRAINS COLLIDE. 95 DEAD; 104 INJURED. BY CABLE—PREBB ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT DELHI, Aug. 30. A railway collision, involving the deaths of ninety-five passengers and injuries to 104, occurred between two passenger trains on the North-West Railway near Montgomery. The cause of the accident was a wronjg signal, which gave the line as clear.
The disaster occurred at midnight, when most of the passengers were asleep.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 September 1924, Page 5
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