TRAINS COLLIDE IN TUNNEL.
TERRIFYING SCENES IN THE DARKNESS. (UNITED PItESS ASSOCIATION—BY CUECUUC TELEGRAPH—COP YBIGHT.) LUCERNE, December 13. Ten people were killed and 15 injured when an express travelling at f,O miles an hour ignored a signal and crashed head-on into a local passenger train travelling at 30 miles an hour in a tunnel. The engines were reduced to heaps of twisted steel, and the drivers were killed The through carriage conveying passengers to Germany was smashed. There were terrifying scenes in the darkness when passengers from the undamaged coaches attempted to rescue those injured and imprisoned in the pile of wreckage, which filled the tunnel. The dead include five children of one family.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20730, 15 December 1932, Page 9
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114TRAINS COLLIDE IN TUNNEL. Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20730, 15 December 1932, Page 9
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