TRAIN SMASH
MANY LIVES LOST.
(Per Press Association Copyright.) (Received April 29, 3 p.m.)
DELHI, April 28. A disastrous railway- smash occurred when the Allahabad-Achradun expresß collided with a goods train at Newanawada. The casualties are estimated at 150 killed and 57 injured. The carriages were overcrowded, containing 300 marriage parties and 50 Gurkhas. All the latter except seven were killed or burned to death. Several Europeans were travelling, but so far none is reported killed.
The first three bogey" carriages smashed caught fire. Men, women t and children were pinned by the wreckage, and struggled vainly with the flames spreading towards them. The scene of the disaster was far from medicnl relief, and the suffering; of the injured was added'to by a raging duststorm. Among the wreckage lay a pool of molten silver, representing piles of rupees in the Indians' baggage, or the melted ba-ngles o f the women victims. .
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9292, 29 April 1920, Page 5
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