RAIL CRASH KILLS 10

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29767, 9 March 1962, Page 13

RAIL CRASH KILLS 10

Italian Train Jumps Rails (N.2. Press Assn.—Copyright) BOLOGNA (Italy), Mar. 8. An eight-coach Italian express left the rails early today, killing at least 10 passengers and injuring more than 100. Witnesses on the scene at Castel Bolognese said the coaches had telescoped, the Associated Press reported. They said that rescuers were still trying to get inside two coaches.

Hospital staffs were called from their homes in the cities of Faenza, Ravenna and Imola in northern central Italy. One hospital had 25 injured, five of them in grave condition Another had received 17 injured. Rescuers feared the death roll would rise once they worked their way through two badly mangled coaches. The train carried almost 200 passengers. Railway officials said the train should have been moving at 18 miles an hour as it passed the station at Castel Bolognese. Instead it was travelling at 55 miles an hour, A.P. reported. The officials did not know why. The locomotive turned over after leaving the rails, dragging the entire train clear of the roadbed.