RAILWAY DISASTERS.
Til V ANTWEKP DISASTLP.. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright .... ÜBUSSELS. May cl. Tlje victims of. the Antwerp railway accident . weie mostly peasant pilgrims from Turnliout sliiine. The signalman was unesui-rl and lieeame suddenly demented. The collision occurred at the village of Coniich, near Antwerp. The Brussels express was by a.mistake turned ■. on to a siding where a. crowded pilgrim train was waiting. The exprti-s engine was thrown on top of the pilgrim train, crushing several carriages. ~.A .number of young, girls, dressed in white .for their tirst communion, were killed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13603, 25 May 1908, Page 5
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90RAILWAY DISASTERS. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13603, 25 May 1908, Page 5
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