Bad Railway Smash
Trains Collide in Tunnel TWENTY-FIVE CASUALTIES ■ IN THE DARKNESS United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LUCERNE, Dec. 13. Ten were killed and 15 injured when an express, travelling at 50 miles per hour, ignored a signal and crashed head-on into a local passenger train travelling at 30 miles per 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 passengers from the undamaged coaches attempted to rescue those who were injured and imprisoned in the pile of wreckage filling the tunnel. Tho dead include fivo children of one family.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7031, 15 December 1932, Page 7
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