DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT-
THIRTY PEOPLE KILLED AND SIXTY INJURED.
By: Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.) MADRID, June 29. r A train from Bilbach to Barcelona was derailed whilst crossing the Malvo bridge, and fell into the Majcrilla river, thirty feet below. Thirty ot the passengers were killed, and sixty injured.
AN APPALLING DISASTER. ENGINE AND TWENTY CARS FALL. VICTIMS DROWNED LIKE RATS INJURED HOURS AMONG THE WRECKAGE. SEVERAL GO MAD.
By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received 5.31 p.m., June 30. MADRID, June 29. Later reports show that 110 were killed and 100 injured in _ the railway disaster at Majerilla river. An engine and twenty cars fell.
Numbers were drowned like rats
The injured were hours among the wreckage before adequate help arrived. Several went insane.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 930, 1 July 1903, Page 2
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120DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT- Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 930, 1 July 1903, Page 2
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