TRAINS COLLIDE
STRANGE ACCIDENT IN RUMANIA FOURTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. Press Association —By Telegraph —Copyright. BUCHAREST, January 16. (Received January 17, at 9.50 a.m.) A strange concatenation of events re suited in fourteen people being killed and forty seriously injured in a railway accident. The express from Graiova broke an axle, and a message was sent to Balata for a relief train. Tins was hurrying to the scene of the mishap, and collided with another relief ram sent from Turnu Severinu, with disastrous consequences. It is alleged that the accident was due to the driver being under tho influence of driink, and not seeing the other train. The wrecked coaches caught fire. It was an hour and a-half lefo.-e doctors were available.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20076, 17 January 1929, Page 8
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123TRAINS COLLIDE Evening Star, Issue 20076, 17 January 1929, Page 8
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