CARRIAGE BECOMES FURNACE
TORTY-FIVE PEOPLE BURNED TO
DEATH.
<By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) MOSCOW, May 29.
Though it happened on April 16th, •details of a railway holocaust have only now leaked out, through the arrest of the officials concerned. It appears that somebody spilled methylated spirits in .*r train near Ddmodedoro and a passenger dropped a lighted match. The carriage was immediately afire from -end to end. Forty-five were incinerat--od .and 23 injured.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 May 1930, Page 5
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