RAILWAY DISASTER
3.15 P.M. EDITION
TERRIBLE SCENES IN A TUNNEL. TEN PERSONS KILLED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). Received December 14, 1.20 p.m. LUCERNE, Dec. 13. Ten persons were killed and fifteen injured when an express, travelling at 50 miles an hour, ignored a signal and crashed head on into a local passenger train which was travelling at 30 miles an hour, in a tunnel. The engines were • reduced to heaps of twisted steel and the drivers were killed. A 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 filling the tunnel. - The dead include five children of one family.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 10
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126RAILWAY DISASTER Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 10
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