MURULLA DISASTER.
CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT.
BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.30 p.m. to-day. SYDNEY, iSept. 30. At the inquest on victims of the Murulla railway disaster, the railway traffic inspector, confirmed the fact that the draw-bolt of one of the goods trucks had snapped and the train crew made this good with a tail rope, but this rope broke during shunting and the trucks rushed down the incline. Ik After, the first break the crew had not ■been able to get the trucks close | enough together to connect, the air l pipes for the brakes.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 September 1926, Page 7
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