A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.
CAUSES TROOP TRAIN TOI CRASH » iNKPTEtfMNtJS: (Australian ana N.Z. Cable Association) . MILAN, Feb. 20. A troop train, after climbing a steep ascent to; thirteen tbqusaAd feet near iTriegitey *|ie^aqhed seye^V»qo^che^\.vpntaining 450 soldiers. " : The '"coaches" descended the slope, owing to a shunting error, and rushed headlong ten miles in ten minutes and crashed inta the Trieste '"*• terminus. i Twenty men were killed andV v eighty were seriously' hurt.* Two.httndred and" fifty suffered . lesser injuries.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14846, 25 February 1919, Page 5
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76A TERRIBLE MISTAKE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14846, 25 February 1919, Page 5
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