SHOCKING FATALITY.
RAILWAY CAR CRASHES THROUGH A BRIDGE.
ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE PERISH.
[Per Mail Steamer at Auckland.] San Francisco, May 19. The celebration of the Queen's Birthday anniversary at Victoria, B,C, had a moat awful finish in an accident that ooourred to one of the cars of the newly organised Consolidated Railway Lighting Company. One of the largest) trolly cars in the service, filled with pleasure seekers, loaded with over 100 men, women, and children went crashing through Point Ellice bridge, carrying most of its human cargo to a watery grave. The accident occurred at two o'clock in the afternoon. Sixty-one bodies had been taken from the water in a short time, and it 1b thoughb as many more are in the debris. The provincial authorities had received a warning that the bridge was unsafe.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7660, 19 June 1896, Page 2
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