YUGOSLAVIAN ACCIDENT.
TRAIN THROUGH BRIDGE. TWO KILLED, ONE INJURED. SENSATIONAL STORY DENIED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received October 27, 11.15 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Sun. VIENNA. Oct. S6. A railway accident occurred in Yugoslavia to-day. A goods train bound from Sarajevo to Mostar, 47 miles south of the former city, was crossing a steel bridge spanning a precipitous ravine when it crashed through the structure and fell to the earth far below. A sensational story was at first in circulation to the effect that the accident had happened to a passenger train and that 260 lives had been lost. Later this was denied, and it transpired that two members of the train crew were killed and one was injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19779, 28 October 1927, Page 11
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