HOW THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED.
Received September 21, 12.40 p.m. London, September 20. The crowded Scotch express />: from King's Cross, instead of stopping at Graritham,, the brakes apparently failing, went slightly beyond towards tte curv^ where the engine and tender parted from the rest of the train, and toppled over a steep embankment. .The wrench caused several coaches to be derailed, and these, striking the coping, of the bridge), followed the engine downthe embankment, : , Several coaches were and were burning furiously up to the time of telegraphing. \ ; }r\\>r-^f/-'-'/yr/:-'-'- '"-■ "■ :' Ten passengers were extricated, including five ; daa(d- (two laniea and tiuree «»• tlemen).. Two other dead perfions were seen in the wreoketgo. -I /: ? The number of injiired is nnSfiown. The mail van superintendent is,missing- ■;-. , ; v; ■/■;-' ; --;.^ v [ :■,}_
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Northern Advocate, 21 September 1906, Page 2
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