TRAINS COLLIDE AT NIGHT
ACCIDENT IN SOUTH AFRICA TWENTY-THREE KILLED; MANY INJURED STORM HAMPERS RESCUE WORK (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received April 5, 11 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, April 5. Twenty-three were killed and many injured in a night-time headon collision between a passenger and a goods train south of Plumtree, on the main Bulawayo-Johannesburg line. The drivers and firemen of both engines were killed. Rescue work was hampered by a fierce storm and the absence of lights. The goods train included three trucks of dynamite, which fortunately did not explode.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22370, 6 April 1938, Page 9
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