Train Smash In Brazil

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28531, 10 March 1958, Page 9

Train Smash In Brazil

(Rec. 8 p.m.) RIO DE JANEIRO, March 8. Police today said there were 22 persons known to be dead and more than 100 injured in a crash of three electric trains at a suburban station north of Rio. Two of the trains travelling in opposite directions crashed into each other at the Paciencia Station. A third train loaded with passengers returning from work rammed into the wreckage of thei first two. No official figures of casualties have been given, and details are few because of an interruption of telephone communication with the scene. But reports sent over a walkietalkie radio set early today said that 46 bodies had been recovered, and that four of the injured had died on the way to hospital. Sixty persons were later reported to be injured, the American Associated Press said. Officials said that heavy rain which flooded parts of the tracks had caused a defect in the signals.

Satellite Rocket Postponed

(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) CAPE CANAVERAL, Mar. 8. Plans to launch a satellitecarrying Vanguard rocket today were postponed by a fog after a series of difficulties. Navy technicians had the 72ft rocket close to the launching stage, and at one point were only 35 seconds from giving the signal to fire. The nature of the technical difficulties was not disclosed.

Algerian Ambush

ALGIERS, March 7. Seventeen French soldiers were killed and two wounded in an ambush by an insurgent band near Lafayette in the Guenzet region of Eastern Algeria, according to reports reaching Algiers tonight. The reports said several soldiers were missing. *