TRAIN ON FIRE
CRASH INTO LORRY PETROL EXPLOSION 17 PASSENGERS KILLED MORE CASUALTIES FEARED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. Sept. 8 Seventeen people were killed and 20 were injured when a train crashed into a lorry carrying petrol from France to Spain, states a message from Perpignan, in the Pyrenees. The explosion set fire to the train, and the passengers became panicstricken. The flames spread to five near by buildings and the whole locality was quickly turned into a furnace.
Firemen worked all night long, but were unable to approach where the flames were fiercest. It is feared there may be further casualties.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23139, 10 September 1938, Page 13
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