COLLISION IN TUNNEL
TEN FATALITIES FIVE CHILDREN IN ONE FAMILY KILLED (United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright; (Received 14tli December, 1.25 p.m.) LUCERNE, 13th December, Ten people were killed and fifteen injured when an express travelling at 60 miles an hour ignored the signal and crashed head-on into a local passenger train 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 passengers from undamaged coaches attempted to rescue those injured and imprisoned in the pile of wreckage filling the tunnel. The dead include live children of one family.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 December 1932, Page 5
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118COLLISION IN TUNNEL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 December 1932, Page 5
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