RAILWAY HOLOCAUST
FORTY-TWE DEAD IN RUSSIA
(Received 30th May, 1.30 p.m.)
MOSCOW, 29tl May.
Though the accident happened on 16th April, details of a railway holocaust have only now loaked out through the arrest of the officials concerned. It appears that somebody spilled methylated spirits in a train near Dornodedovo. A passenger dropped a lighted match, and tho carriage took fire from end to end.'. Forty-five were incinerated and twenty-three injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 30 May 1930, Page 9
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71RAILWAY HOLOCAUST Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 30 May 1930, Page 9
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