TRAIN DISASTER.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20448, 19 January 1932, Page 7

TRAIN DISASTER.

* CRASH NEAR MOSCOW. SIXTY-EIGHT PASSENGERS KILLED. (UNITED PItESB ASSOCIATION' —B7 ELXCTEIC TEI.EGKAPH—COPYRIGHT.) MOSCOW, January 37. News has just been released of a railway disaster in -which 6S wero killed r.nd 130 injured, near Moscow, on the evening of January 2nd. » Two suburban trains left Moscow with an interval of a few minutes. As the first passed Kossino station a drunken man threw himself beneath it. The train stopped, but the correct sigr.als were not given to the following train, travelling at 50 miles an hour, and it crashed into the stationary train* with appalling results. _ The confusion was increased by a%3scrve engine going to Moscow on the up track colliding with the overturned coaches lying across the lines. A fourth train rapidly approaching was just stepped in time.

Darkness added to the horrors of the scene and increased the difficulties of rescuers. Eleven officials have been arrested. RAILWAY CARRIAGES OVERTURNED. ACCIDENT IN FRANCE. TEN KILLED, THIRTY INJURED. (Received January ISth, 7.50 p.m.) PARIS, January IS. Ten passengers were killed and thirty injured in a railway accident at St. Just, between Paris and Compiegne. Owing to a coupling breaking several coaches toppled over and their passengers were trapped in the broken woodwork and steel.