Twenty-three Killed In Head-on Train Smash
THREE TRUCKS OF DYNAMITE FAIL TO EXPLODE
United Press Association—bv Sloe Clio Telegraph.—Copyright
Received Tuesday, 10.30 p.m. CAPE TOWN, April 5.
Twenty-three were killed and many injured at night time in a head-on collision between passenger and goods trains south of Plumtree on the main Bulawayo-Johannea-burg line.
The drivers and. firemen in both engines were killed. The rescue work was hampered by a fierce storm and the absence of lights. The goods train included three trucks of dynamite, which fortunately did not explode.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 4
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