TRAIN PLUNGES INTO SEA
DERAILMENT IN DARKNESS TRAGEDY ON JAPANESE LINE ALL BUT ONE COACH SAVED By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 11.50 p.m. Tokio, Nov. 6. An express train from Osaka to Amori was derailed in the darkness this morning. The locomotive and a passenger coach plunged over a 100'foot cliff into the sea. Several were killed and many injured. Investigations revealed that the rails rails were tampered with, bolts and spikes being removed. Fortunately the couplings broke, this saving the remaining coaches.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1930, Page 7
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