RAILWAY SMASH
SECOND EDITION
SOUTH AFRICAN DISASTER. DEATH ROLL SEVENTEEN. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) , Received June 12, 1.40 p.m. CAPETOAVN, June 11. Two of those injured in the railway smash at Salt River succumbed to their injuries. The death roll is now 17.- — A. and N.Z. cable. The accident was due to the breaking of a coupling, three rear coaches of an express train dashing into the stanchions of an overhead road bridge.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 164, 12 June 1926, Page 10
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72RAILWAY SMASH Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 164, 12 June 1926, Page 10
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