TRAINS COLLIDE
RUSSIAN DISASTER
SIXTY-EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED INCORRECT SIGNALS (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Moscow, January 17. The news has just been released of a railway disaster in which 68 were killed and 130 injured near Moscow on the evening of January 2. Two. suburban trains left Moscow within an interval of a few minutes As the first passed Kossino station a drunken man threw himself beneath it. The train was stopped, but the correct signals were not given and the following train travelling at a speed of 50 miles an hour crashed into the stationary train with appalling results. The confusion was increased by a reserve engine, going to Moscow on the up track, colliding with the overturned coaches lying across the lines. A fourth train was rapidly approaching and was just stopped in time. Darkness added to the horrors of the scene and increased the difficulties of the rescuers. Eleven officials have been arrested.
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Southland Times, Issue 21606, 19 January 1932, Page 5
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155TRAINS COLLIDE Southland Times, Issue 21606, 19 January 1932, Page 5
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