TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER.
collision NEAR DONCASTER. 24 EXCURSIONISTS KILLED. 60 INJURED. IBBUIER'S telegram.] London, September 16. A disastrous railway accident has occurred near Doncaster, two excursion trains having come into collision. So far as is known, twenty persons were ; killed, and fully seventy injured. London, September 18. 1 Further particulars of the railway accident near Doncaster state that twenty-four persons were killed, and 1 sixty injured. The victims were all > residents in Sheffield. [P3KSS ASS9CIATION.] : London, September 18. ' The railway accident at Doncaster ' was caused owing to a change from the block system to flags, while excursion trains were being run to the Doncasta races.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8057, 19 September 1887, Page 5
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105TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8057, 19 September 1887, Page 5
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