Doctors from the Franconia to the Rescue Capetown, Apr. 26.
Five persons, including a lady passenger, were killed and a number of others injured in the -derailment today of a passenger-train from Johannesburg on the famous Hex River Pass, near Worcester, the scene of the disastrous wreck in 1914 of a troop-train which many Kaffrarian curve and climbing a steep gradient when the dining-car ran off the rails, dragging off six coaches. A fire in the dining car set the piled up coaches ablaze.
'A number of American doctors among the party of tourists from the Cunard liner Franconia, whose train was held up owing' to the. disaster, assisted the injared.—Reuter.
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