TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER
A TRAIN THROWN INTO A RIVER, MADRID, June 29. A train from Bilbao to Barcelona got deluded while crossing the Nalvo bridge, and fell into the Najerilla river, thirty feet below. Thirty passengers were killed, and sixty injured. Later reports show that a hundred and ten persons were killed and a hundred injured in the railway disaster on the Najerilla river. The engine and twenty cars fell. Numbers of the passengers were drowned like rats. The injured were for hours among the wreckage before adequate help arrived. Several of the sufferers went insane.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1636, 8 July 1903, Page 21
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