HEAVY MORTALITY
RESULT OF TRAIN ACCIDENT. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) VIENNA, July 4. . The destruction of signal communications by lightning led to two- trams colliding -at Vlasin, forty miles from Prague.. Twelve were killed and twenty-seven were injured. As tlm telephone lines had ailso been destroyed by the storm, the catastrophe only became known when the driver of one train ran to the nearest station to organise a rescue party.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1932, Page 5
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72HEAVY MORTALITY Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1932, Page 5
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