RAILWAY DISASTER.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT. SPEED TOO GREAT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) PARIS. July i. II is officially staled that Ihe accidenl was due lo the express taking 100 uuiekly a bend on lo the branch line Lo which il was diverted owing lo a subsidence in the ground. The latter was Hie result of a rainstorm. II is considered lhal, the speed Of the train at II"' bend may have prcvnteil Ihe driver from seeing the slow-up signal. Among those who were killed was an English jockey, Wilcocks, who was returning home after having ridden at Ihe ttoucn meeting.
The train was travelling at a rate of 55 miles an hour. The belching si earn from (lie engine terribly scalded many of the people who were Imprisoned In I lie wreckage.
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Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16841, 6 July 1926, Page 5
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