RAILWAY DISASTERS
ACCIDENT IN HEW YORK MANY PEOPLE INJURED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 23. One hundred and fifty persons were mowed down, fifty being injured, four of them fatally, when railway sleepers on a flat work car were hurled on to a platform in an underground railway, which was crowded with women and children. A work train was speeding by the station, when one tie which was projecting hit a steel pillar, catapulting the 'load among the passengers, who were chiefly Chrisraas shoppers. Twentythree persons were taken to hospital. DERAILMENT IN ITALY TWO PEOPLE KILLED. LONDON, December 24. A message from Foggia (Italy) states that four coaches of an express were overturned in a derailment at Incoronata. Two people were killed and six injured.
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Evening Star, Issue 20985, 26 December 1931, Page 9
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126RAILWAY DISASTERS Evening Star, Issue 20985, 26 December 1931, Page 9
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