TRAIN DISASTER.
ERROR OF SIGNALMAN.
TRAGEDY IN THE ALPS.
BUCHAREST, Oct. 26. The train disaster near Slatina occurred at 2.45 o’clock in the morning. It has not yet been explained how the express from Bucharest came to be on the wrong line. The Orient express, one of the world’s most famous trains, rounded a curve at full speed and was confronted by the other express, which was also travelling at full speed. Both trains were hurled at "each other with terrific force, the Orient engine boring right through the Bucharest tVain before crumpling up into a mass of twisted iron. Both drivers were killed.
The leading Orient coaches, including a luxurious sleeping coach, were telescoped. The noise is described as haying been akin to a wartime mine explosion. The explosion was followed by an outburst of flames as the wreckage caught fire.
An inquiry established that the collision was due to the error of a signalman, who has disappeared.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1928, Page 3
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