RUNAWAY WAGGONS.
CRASH INTO WORKERS’ HUTS. United Press Association--By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 22, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, March 21. Heavily laden goods waggons from the coal mines at Jurminy, became detached during the night from the train, and ran down a grade. The brakesman jumped off passing through a station and was seriously injured. The runaways, gathering momentum, dashed into a siding, and jumping the metals, crashed into huts where railway workers’ families were sleeping, injuring women and children. When stopped, the guard was found in the debris, crushed to death. He had remained at his post in an effort to check the headlong rush.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18833, 23 March 1931, Page 9
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105RUNAWAY WAGGONS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18833, 23 March 1931, Page 9
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