EXPRESSES DERAILED
Heavy Death-roll Results
ACCipENT IN RUSSIA
(Received January 8, 5.5 p.m.)
Moscow, January 7.
Frozen signals are believed to have been the cause of the sleeping car expresses from Leningrad to Tiflis (Georgia) and Leningrad to Moscow crashing on the main line 140 miles south of Leningrad.
Both were derailed. The Moscow train caught lire. Many passengers were trapped. The death roll is unknown. but is admitted to be heavy. Both injured and uninjured suffered severely in the wintry night before the arrival of relief trains with doctors and nurses.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 89, 9 January 1935, Page 9
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92EXPRESSES DERAILED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 89, 9 January 1935, Page 9
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