BAD RAIL SMASH IN JAVA
25 KILLED; 70 INJURED
Recd. 10 p.m. Batavia, Oct, 1. Twenty-five Indonesian passengers were killed and 70 seriously injured in a railway accident between Parakan and Temanggung, north of Magelang, in Central Java, yesterday. Four heavily-laden carriages broke loose from a train on a steep grade. One carriage jumped the rails and capsized. The other three ran down a gradient at 50 miles an hour till the brakeman was able to stop them near Kranggang. The Indonesian and Chinese Red Cross rushed assistance to the scene.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 2 October 1947, Page 5
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