RAILWAY DISASTER
ACCIDENT IN SOUTH AFRICA.
SIXTEEN PERSONS KILLED
VICTIMS’ TERRIBLE INJURIES.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received June 11, 8.5 a.m. CAPETOWN, June 10. Sixteen persons were killed and 26 were injured in the railway accident at Salt River, two miles from Capetown. The accident was caused by a coupling breaking and the three rear coaches of the express dashing into the stanchions of an overhead road bridge. • _ ... The soene of the disaster is an important junction for the main and suburban lines. The disaster is the worst that has ever happened to a suburban train in this country and has rarely been exceeded in the death roll in the history of African railways. The wrecked, train was popular and was usually crammed with passengers for various stations as far as Simonstown, a naval port. The accident was remarkable . for the terrible mangling of the victims, arms legs and feet' being picked up among the debris.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1926, Page 7
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