TRAIN COLLISION IN BERLIN.
' DANGER SIGNALS DISREGARDED. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. TERRIBLE SCENES. (Received Sept. 28, 8.50 a.m.) BERLIN, Sunday. A train running on the Berlin elevated electric railway, disregarding a danger signal at the junction, rammed another train broadside on, killing 30 persons and injuring 20, chiefly through the victims coming m contact with the electric cnrrent. The collision threw a third-class car full of passengers off the line into a courtyard 20 feet below, smashing the car and crushing the occupants. Another car was suspended near the viaduct, the injured passengers screaming frantically until a fireman relifted the car rails. Many persons were terribly mutilat- ' ed, and one was decapitated. No one was injured aboard the colliding train, which is supposed to have been responsible for the accident.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 September 1908, Page 3
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