HOBART RAILWAY SMASH.
THIRTY-ONE INJURED.
Electric Telegraph-Press Association Copyright.
* Hobart, Last Night. The cause of th e railway accident has not been made clear. The list of injured has now been swelled to thirty-one and includes LieutenantColonel Alexander and Miss Langley, daughter of Bishop Langley. Several of the oases are serious. The Rev. Mr Baker was pinned under th© engine. The body of Miss Barras (killed) was pinned by the same beam nnd saved him from being fatally crushed.
STEAM PIPE BURST
Hobart, This Day A passenger states that Goodchild. before his death told him that a steam pipe burst in the engine just before the accident.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5360, 18 February 1916, Page 5
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