GREAT TRAIN SMASH
A HUNDRED AND FIFTY DEATHS. '
Australian and N;Z. Cable-Assn. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. ~ DELHI, April 27. The Allalhabad-Dehr Dun ' express collided with a goods wain at Newanawada- The casualties are estimated at. 150., killed and 57 injured. The carriages were overcrowded, containing three hundred marriage parties and fifty Gurkhas. All the latter except seven were killed oi- burned to death. Several Europeans were travelling, but so far none is reporter killed. ; . -:■> • . W /'V;:- ■■:■/' .'The; first, threeV bogey carriages were smashed .and caxight. fire, and men, women, and children pinned in tlhc wreckage vainly, with/flames spreading' '.towards' them, : : The 'scene of the disaster was far from ■■medical relief. The sufferings of the injured were added to by a paging dust-storm. Among the wreckage after the fire lay a pool of. molten silver, representing piles of rupees in the Indians' ba<r■gage,: or nielted bangles of the women . victims.
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Timaru Herald, Volume 170, Issue 170205, 1 May 1920, Page 9
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148GREAT TRAIN SMASH Timaru Herald, Volume 170, Issue 170205, 1 May 1920, Page 9
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