RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
CAR TURNS TURTLE. Melbourne, September 25. A railway car left the rails near Molcsworth, and turned turtle clown the embankment. The nature of the injuries is not yet ascertained. Doctors have been telegraphed for. Nine persons were injured. It is not known whether there were any fatalities. FURTHER PARTICULARS. A NEAR CALL. (Received 26, 9.10 a.m.) Melbourne, September 26. The train was a mixed one, and the accident was caused by a truck jumping the rails. It travelled two hundred yards before the coupling broke and the truck left the line, dragging another with it over an embankment. 'The following truck and two passenger cars continued till they struck a bridge. The truck and a passenger car (containing eighteen passengers) toppled thirty feet into a gully. Sixteen were injured, the most serious being a broken arm, cuts, and bruises.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 35, 26 September 1911, Page 5
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