TRAIN DERAILED
LINE DAMAGED PASSENGERS RECEIVE SHAKING* (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) ; v SYDNEY, July 15. A‘ train derailment occurred on the .western line, *23 miles from Bourke, when twelve, carriages and ,a heavy oil tapk brake van ploughed up the permanent way doing considerable damage ’ ' Forty-eight passengers were hauled atop of one another. •, All escaped with a severe shaking and shock. Portion of the train halted on top of a high embankment, and would pro'bahly have fallen down the other side, but the recent rajn had softened the ground, and the wheels beeline deeply, embedded, retarding progress.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1935, Page 5
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