HEAD ON.
TRAINS COLLIDE.
RUSSIAN SMASH. Eighteen Killed and Nine Injured. STATIONMASTER ARRESTED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10.30 cm.) MOSCOW, February 10. Eighteen were killed and nine injured when a passenger train collided head on with a freight train at Karanstrogonovo station, near Saratov. The engines and carriages were splintered and the wreckage of two wagons ignited, impeding rescue works. The stationmaster at Konayalov lias been charged with criminal negligence in permitting the trains to get on the same track.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 7
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