THE VENICE DISASTER
RESULT OF INQUIRY RUST AND DIRT IN SIGNAL .GEAR. (AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION,) (Received October 11, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, 10th October. The Daily Chronicle's Milan correspondent states" that the railway disaster on the Venice causeway was much more serious than was at first reported. In. addition to the dead whoso corpses wore recovered, other passengers were hurled into the sea. and drowned. No help was forthcoming for several hours. A passenger had"to walk three miles to Venice to convey the tidings: At a preliminary inquiry it was stated that the signalling apparatus had rusted and worked imperfectly ; the signalman was intoxicated; and the signal-lamp at the rear of the train was so obscured with filth that tho driver of the' Trieste-Rome train could distinguish its colour only a few yards away..
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 88, 11 October 1920, Page 8
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135THE VENICE DISASTER Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 88, 11 October 1920, Page 8
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