Siam Train Crash
BANGKOK, July 11. Twenty-four people were hilled and more than 60 serf, ously injured when Siam’s Northern Express was derailed 370 miles north of Bangkok on the night of July 8, according to delayed police reports, the Associated Press reported. Several American technicians attached to the mining project in northern Siam and two Malayan railway officials were said to be among the death. Police said two diesel engines and the first six coaches of an eight-coach express plunged from a 15-foot high single track embankment in an area of thick jungle.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29563, 12 July 1961, Page 20
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