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RAILWAY DISASTER

TWO TRAINS COLLIDE HEAVY CASUALTY LIST. LUCERNE, December 13.. Ten people were killed and, 15 injured when an express travelling at 50 miles per hour ignored the signal and crashed head on into a local passenger train which was travelling at a rate of 30 miles per hour, in a tunnel. The engines were reduced to heaps of twisted steel, and the drivers were killed. The through carriage conveying passengers to Germany > was smashed. There were terrifying scenes in the darkness when the passengers from the undamaged coaches attempted to rescue those injured and imprisoned in the pile of wreckage which filled the tunnel. The dead include five children of one family.

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 9

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RAILWAY DISASTER Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 9

RAILWAY DISASTER Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 9