TRAIN DERAILED
ESCAPE OF PASSENGERS.
THIRTEEN TRUCKS WRECKED. ACCIDENT NEAR INVERCARGILL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) / INVERCARGILL, Saturday. Thirteen waggons and a carriage on a mixed train jumped the rails on the Seaward Bush line near Titiroa last evening. About 20 passengers aboard received a severe shaking, but suffered nothing worse than bruising.. The waggons, ! which were loaded with ashes for the slip, were strewn over the steep bank, four being piled in a heap. The derailed carriage had a heavy list and was resting precariously at the edge of the steep barik, while ■the rails were torn away for about 'SO yards. A gang is busy effecting repairs.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19639, 27 July 1935, Page 7
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107TRAIN DERAILED Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19639, 27 July 1935, Page 7
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