INDIAN RAILWAY SMASH.
CROWDED TRAIN WRECKED.
200 KILLED AND INJURED.
MANY.; BURNED <• TO DEATH. Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. A. and N.Z. DELHI, April 28.
A disastrous railway smash occurred near Allahabad to-day. The Dehra Dun exr press collided with a goods , train from Newanawada, the express being wrecked. The casualties are estimated at 150 killed and 57 injured.
The carriages were overcrowded, containing 300 marriage parties and 50 Gurkhas. All the latter escaped. Several Europeans were travelling on the train, but so far none are reported killed.
The first three bogey carriages were ■smashed, and the wreckage caught fire. Men, women and children, pinned in the wreckage, struggled vainly as the flames spread towards them. The scene of the disaster was far from medical relief, and the suffering of the injured was added to by a. raging dust storm.
Among the wreckage lay a pool of molten silver, representing piles of rupees in the baggage of the Indians and melted bangles of the women victims.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17458, 30 April 1920, Page 5
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