SAUJON RAILWAY SMASH
POINTSMAN'S STARTLING ADMISSION.
By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright
(Eeceived August 17, 8.55* p.xn.)
TATIS,
August 17
The pointsman on duty at Saujon—where on Sunday a goods train ovorran the points and collided with an excursion train, with the result that thirty-eevon passengers wore killed and nearly fifty seriously injured—admits that he signalled “line clear” for the goods train, without waiting for his chief's instructions and in defiance of the rules.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7209, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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