RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Capetown, July 21. The managing director of the railway on which the disaster occurred at Blaaukrantz on April 21, who was arrested on a charge of manslaughter, has been acquitted. A shocking railway accident took place on April 21 near Grahamstown. Four carriages and the guard's van of a train that was crossing the Blaauwkrantz bridge toppled over into a chasm beneath, 250 feet deep. The engine remained on the rails. Altogether twenty persons were killed, the bodies of the victims being dreadfully mangled. Twenty-one persons were injured.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 25, 24 July 1911, Page 5
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96RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 25, 24 July 1911, Page 5
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