TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR SYDNEY.
A TRAIN RUSHES OVER AN EM-
BANXMENT.
Sydney, Monday. A terrible accident occurred to the mad train last night near Cootamundra on the southern line. Owing to heavy rain an embankment had given way,, and the train rushed into the gap in the darkness, and was completely wrecked. Many of the carriages were telescoped and several passengers killed and wounded. A later telegram says the carriages fairly dammed the creek and several persons were washed down (he stream, others were killed by the force of the concussion.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1666, 28 January 1885, Page 3
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92TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR SYDNEY. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1666, 28 January 1885, Page 3
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