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TRAIN DRIVERS SENTENCED. SEQUEL TO MOSCOW ACCIDENT. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) MOSCOW, January 26. The Court of Inquiry into the railway disaster sentenced the drivers of the trains to ten years and eight years respectively, the stationmaster to ten years, and other officials from one to five years,
News lias just been released of a railway disaster in which sixty-eight were killed and 130 injured near Moscow on the evening of January 2nd. Two suburban trains left Moscow within an interval of a few minutes. As the first passed Kossino station, a drunken man threw himself beneath it. The train stopped hut the correct signal was not given and the following train travelling at fifty miles hourly crashed into the stationary train with appalling results. Ihe confusion was increased by a reserve engine going to Moscow on the up track colliding with overturned coaches lying across the lines. A fourth train, rapidly approaching, was just stopped in time. Darkness added to the horror-s of the .scene, and increas' d the difficulties of the rescue).s. Eleven officials have been arrested.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1932, Page 5
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