RAILWAY TRAGEBY IN SCOTLAND.
SMASH CAUSED BY LANDSLIDE. TWENTY-SIX CASUALTIES. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 20. The Midland Railway Company's Scottish express from London ran into a landslide at Lazon'by (near Carlisle). The engine overturned, carriages -were telescoped, and six people were killed and about 20 injured. The train was travelling at full speed in the dusk, when the driver noticed a huge bank dropping on to the line. Tho engine became embedded in the earth, and was derailed. The heavy train behind forced the foremost coach at right angles across the rails, and it was smashed to atoms.
Heroic rescue and firstwudi work was performed by military officers and nurses aboard the train.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17218, 22 January 1918, Page 4
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119RAILWAY TRAGEBY IN SCOTLAND. Otago Daily Times, Issue 17218, 22 January 1918, Page 4
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