SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY DISASTER
SIXTEEN DEATHS (Reuters Telegrams) CAPETOWN, June 10 As a result of the disastrous railway accident at Salt River, two miles from Capetown, sixteen are dead including Sir Malcolm Seai'le. Twenty-six wore injured. The accident was due to a coupling breaking, the- three rear coaches of the express dashing into the stanchions of an overhead rood bridge. The scene of the disaster is an important junction of the main and suburban lines. The disaster is the worst that has ever happened to a suburban train in this country and rarely exceeded in the death roll in the history of African railways. The wrecked train was popular and 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.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 June 1926, Page 5
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