ROTHERHAM DISASTER.
A FATAL TWO SECONDS. SY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCI ATION—COPYRIGHT Received 12.55 p.nt. to-day. LONDON, Nov. 21. The express train, 150 feet long, and travelling at fifty miles an hour, would have flashed past safely it a goods wa-gon had been derailed two seconds later,” said a rai way official in giving evidence at the inquest on nine people who were hiked in the Rotherham disaster. A broken crowbar caused a truck to collapse, telescoping six others. —Sydney bun Cable, ■.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 November 1926, Page 9
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81ROTHERHAM DISASTER. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 November 1926, Page 9
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