GERMAN TRAIN TRAGEDY
AN EXPRESS DERAILED. SIXTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. (United Press Association.! (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, June 10. The Munich-Frankfurt express was derailed early this morning. Twenty-two people were killed and sixteen injured.— Australian Press Association —United Service. A TERRIBLE DEATH. SEVERAL FATALLY SCALDED. BERLIN, June 10. The crowded train was rounding a curve at a speed of 50 miles an hour, close to the small station of Siegelsdorf, near Nnremburg. The engine plunged over an embankment, and the carriages piled up at the bottom. Many people were killed outright, and others were scalded to death by the locomotive’s steam. —Australian Press Association — United Service. SABOTAGE SUSPECTED. BERLIN, June 10. (Received June 11, at 5.5 p.m.) It is believed that the express disaster was due to sabotage. —United Service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20432, 12 June 1928, Page 9
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