FREAK ACCIDENT DERAILS EXPRESS
San Francisco, Sept. 27. A freak accident derailed a nine carriage .southbound Southern Pacific West Coast express early today, but the enginedriver continued for a mile before he discovered he had lost his train. Two employees on the train suffered cuts and bruises.
The enginedriver said, “ the first 1 knew anything was wrong was when I looked back and saw I had no train. I backed up about a mile before I came to the wreckage.” The train was travelling at 35 miles an hour. Railway officials offered no explanation of the accident.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19470930.2.62
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, 30 September 1947, Page 5
Word Count
97FREAK ACCIDENT DERAILS EXPRESS Wanganui Chronicle, 30 September 1947, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.