DISASTER ON AN ELEVATED ELECTRIC RAILWAY.
CAR FALLS TWENTY FEET. THIRTY PEOPLE KILLED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) (Received 8.42 ami.) BERLIN, September 27. A train running or. the Berlin Elevated Electric railway, disregarding a danger signal at a. junction rammed another train broadside on, killing 30 passengers and injuring 20. Many of the victims were injured j through coming in contact with the current. j The collision threw a third-class car, [ full of passengers, off the line into a I courtyard 20 feet below. | The ear was smashed to pieces, the occupants being crushed, many being killed outright. Another car was thrown off the track, but it hung suspended by its couplings near a viaduct, the injured passengers screaming frantically until a party of firemen relifted the car on to the rails. Many were terribly mutilated, while one unfortunate passenger was decapitated. No one was injured aboard the moving train, which is supposed to have been responsible for the accident.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 232, 28 September 1908, Page 5
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