BAD WEATHER IN BRITAIN
SERIOUS TRAIN COLLISION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at noon.) ' LONDON, Feb. 12. There is no sign of a break in the Arctic weather. Intense cold, accentuated by snowstorms and heavy gales prevail throughout Britain. The Scotch express on the Midland Railway ran into a goods train at Alfralton (Derbyshire). The engine was overturned and four parcel vans derailed, killing the driver and fireman. The passenger carriages kept to the lines, and fortunately there was no fire. LONDON. February 12. Messages from all parts ol Europe disclose the terrible severity of the. weather. Trieste bad a ninety-mile per hour freezing hurricane, as a result of which six hundred persons were injured. An avalanche at Innsbruck buried five smugglers. * The temperature in parts of Rumania is dO degrees below zero. Whole families have been frozen to death.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1929, Page 5
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143BAD WEATHER IN BRITAIN Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1929, Page 5
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