A FATAL SMASH
RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR GRAVESEND. Australian and N.Z. Cable Awociatian. LONDON, August 21. A train conveying five hundred workmen tills morning from London to Molton Range baited at a station, two miles beyond Gravesend, wherri the London County Council is carrying out an extensive road construction scheme. It overran the platform at Milton, which is temporary, and hat not a signal box. Owing to the fog, the workmen clearing the line after leaving the train on the wrong side did not notice approaching a light engine, which killed one and cut off another’s foot. During the confusion a second workmen’s train, in the absence of rig-' uals, telescoped three of the rear carriages of the .stationary train. Workmen awaiting the latter train’s mturn to the platform were buried beneath the debris, and three killed end fourteen injured. Some workmen, leaping from the train, foil into the canal adjoining the line.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11296, 23 August 1922, Page 5
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152A FATAL SMASH New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11296, 23 August 1922, Page 5
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