DISASTERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 780, 1 April 1910, Page 5

DISASTERS.

A TRAIN COLLISION IN GERMANY. TWENTY SOLDIERS KILLED. MANY INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Asßociation-Oopyrtßht (Eeo, March 31, 5 p.m.) Berlin, March 30. A passenger train collided with a military train at Mulheim, intho Rhine province. The passengers were not injured. Of the soldiers, 20 were killed, 40 wero seriously injured, and GO wero slightly injured. FIFTY DROWNED. GIPSY CARAVAN SINKS THROUGH ■-.■■-'.' LAKE ICE. St. Petersburg March 30. A gipsy caravan was crossing Lak« Cheremenctzki, Russia, from the Duga cattle fair, when the ice broke. Fifty wero drowned. ' THE DANCE INFERNO. DEATHS 325. . . Vienna, March 31. In addition to the 300 deaths already reported, 25 more victims of the firo in a dance-room' at Okoerito, Hungary, died yesterday. : Many todies were found dead in ditches in tho surrounding fields, whither the victims had fled in search of water to adeviato their'agonies. • • A RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Melbourne, March 31. ;■ A railway accident occurred at Willatira. A portion of a mixed express from Ararat broke away, owing to tho derailment of a truck. . The engine and three trucks collided at the ; end of the platform. The trucks were wrecked. The • passenger cars remained on the line. The passengers were much alarmed, ,but no one was injured.