RAILWAY FATALITY
EXPRESS TRAIN IN FLAMES. fUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). 1 j (Received this day at 10.30. a.m.) ' * DELHI, March 12. < When the Martdalny express was nine ' miles out from Rangoon, travelling at f full speed, the leading bogie burst 1 into flames. Sixty to seventy third- I class passengers broke out in a wild 1 panic of fighting and trampling each 1 other in a mad scramble to get to the 1 Smoke and intense heat added to the horror and before the train 1 was brought to a stop thirty had leap- ' eel from the burning vehicle and ’ twenty others had been injured by trampling. A later message states that 73' were injured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1929, Page 5
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116RAILWAY FATALITY Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1929, Page 5
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