STRANGE ACCIDENT
SUFFOCATED IN A TUNNEL. WHOLE OF TRAIN’S CREW DEAD. Australian and N.Z Cable Association. (Received ■ Juno 1, 8.15 p.m.) PARIS, May 31. An astonishing accident occurred at the Mornay tumyel on the Swiss frontier. A goods train was compelled to atop in the tunnel, aod seven men. consisting of drivers. stokers, and breaksmen. were suffocated to death owing to the poor ventilation. The tragedy was discovered when a passenger train collided with the goods train. The driver got down to sec what the matter was, and found the whole crvrw of the goods train dead.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11225, 2 June 1922, Page 5
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