TRAINS COLLIDE
DISASTER NEAR PRAGUE TWELVE PEOPLE KILLED. VIENNA, July 4. (Received July 4, at 10 p.m.) The destruction of signal communication by lightning led to trains colliding at VI as in, 40 miles from Prague, and 12 people were killed and 27 injured. As the telephone lines were also destroyed by the storm the catastrophe was only known when the driver of one of the trains ran to the nearest station to organise a rescue party.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21688, 5 July 1932, Page 7
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77TRAINS COLLIDE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21688, 5 July 1932, Page 7
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