TUNNEL TRAGEDY
TERRIBLE SCENES WORKMEN SWEPT FROM FOOTBOARD OF TRAIN. PANIC IN SEMI-DARKNESS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 28. 10 p.m.) BERLIN, June 27. A tragedy attended Dr Rathenau’s funeral. A train crowded with spectators, including many workmen standing on tile footboards, was traversing a tunnel when it met a train carrying long girders and travelling in the. opposite direction. The girders caught the sides of the first trr : carriages, crasliing through the woou..ork, and swept off hundreds of passengers on to the line between the trains. Most horrible scenes followed in the semi-darkness, many shrieking victims being crushed and other® seized with panic.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11249, 29 June 1922, Page 5
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