COLLISION IN TUNNEL
TERRIBLE RAILWAY TRAGEDY TEN PEOPLE KILLED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LUCERNE, December 13. (Received December 14, at 1.25 p.m.) Ten people were killed and fifteen injured when an express travelling at fifty miles per hour ignored the signal and crashed head on into a local passenger train which was travelling at a rate of thirty miles per hour, in a tunnel. . f ■ The engines were reduced to heaps of twisted steel, and the drivers were killed. The through carriage conveying passengers. to Germany was smashed. There were terrifying scenes in the darkness when the passengers from the undamaged coaches attempted to rescue those injured and imprisoned in the pile of wreckage which filled the tunnel. The dead include five children of one family.
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Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 12
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125COLLISION IN TUNNEL Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 12
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