RUSSIAN TRAIN DISASTER.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 3. The • Minister for communications has visited Vladikavakaz.
Passengers by the train assert that the official account regarding bandits was an invention, and that rotten sleepers caused the disaster.
It was stated on Thursday that brigands appearing at Vladikavakaz removed the fish plates from the railway line and an express train travelling at forty miles an hour was precipitated over an embankment. Several coaches were smashed to atoms.
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Northern Advocate, 4 October 1913, Page 5
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