DYNAMITE WRECKS TRAIN.
OUTRAGE NEAR BUDA PEST. HURLED INTO RAVINE. 25 PASSENGERS KILLED. POLICE MAKE ARRESTS. By Telegraph Press Association-Copyright. (Received September 14. 5.5 p.m.) BUDA PEST. Sept. 11. Ilio Cologne to Bucla Pest express train was wrecked last night 10 miles from Buda Pest and 25 passengers were killed, including two Englishwomen, arid 40 were injured, 14 of them dangerously. A viaduct collapsed after the engine and two coaches had passed over it safely. Hie remaining coaches crashed into a ravint, 100 ft. deep, into which rescuers had to descend by ropes. Communists are believed to bo responsible. A fuse was found near the scene and also a message saying: " If the capitalist Government does not give us work we shall set to work ourselves." Two workers have been arrested on a charge of complicity in the outrage, which was caused by a handbag filled with dynamite being placed at the foot of the viaduct and connected with the battery of an electric pocket lamp. Thirteen rescue workers have suffered injuries in the ravine. The police believe that the Communists responsible foi the wreck belong to an organisation which is concerned with several recent railway outrages.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20978, 15 September 1931, Page 9
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197DYNAMITE WRECKS TRAIN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20978, 15 September 1931, Page 9
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