TRAIN SMASH IN ITALY.—Firemen and other rescue workers stand on top of a twisted carriage as they work to extricate victims from the wreckage after a train smash at the railway station in Voghera, south of Milan. A freight train rammed a stationary passenger train at 50 miles an hour. On the left is one of the waggons of the freight train, and the engine is seen rammed inside a carriage of the passenger train. The express was packed with holiday-makers bound for th e Riviera. More than 60 were killed, and many seriously injured.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29842, 7 June 1962, Page 9
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95TRAIN SMASH IN ITALY.—Firemen and other rescue workers stand on top of a twisted carriage as they work to extricate victims from the wreckage after a train smash at the railway station in Voghera, south of Milan. A freight train rammed a stationary passenger train at 50 miles an hour. On the left is one of the waggons of the freight train, and the engine is seen rammed inside a carriage of the passenger train. The express was packed with holiday-makers bound for th e Riviera. More than 60 were killed, and many seriously injured. Press, Volume CI, Issue 29842, 7 June 1962, Page 9
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