Two English Hallway Accidents.
THIRTEEN PERSONS KILLED.
A SIGNALMAN ASLEEP.
(PER. PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, November 3.
Over 100 persons were on the sonth express train which collided near Tbirsk. Several of these had booked for Australia by tbe steamer Oratava, including Captain Duncan MoLeod, of the 42nd Regiment, who was killed, and Mr. S. P. Brodie seriously injured. Two of the carriages were piled upon the engine and burnt, but tbe other oarriages were not consumed. Altogether 13 persons were killed. Lord Tweeddale expresses the belief that the signalman was asleep. Tbe accident happened at 4 o'clock in tbe morning.
The Scotch express accident occurred during a fog, when the train was tunning a mile per minute. Lords Tweedijlate and Hantly, who were asleep in aFuln&n car, had a narrow escape.
Fifty persona were injured by a collision on the Mersey Bailway.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3269, 5 November 1892, Page 2
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142Two English Hallway Accidents. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3269, 5 November 1892, Page 2
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