SPANISH BRIDGE TRAGEDY
CAUSED BY MOTOR BUS. HEAVY CASUALTY LIST. Phh A»*ociation—By Telegraph— Copyright MADRID, March 31. (Received April 1, at 5.5 p.m.) Torrential floods in the Guadalquivcr near AJgaba resulted in the collapse ot a bridge. Two hundred people were on the bridge watching the churning waters when a motor omnibus pushed through the crowd. It reached the third arch when the bridge broke, throwing the onlookers and the bus into the flooded river. Thirty persons are dea'd, their bodies having already been recovered and M others were injured.-—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19136, 2 April 1924, Page 7
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