TRAINS COLLIDE
SHOCKING DISASTER, _
TEN PEOPLE KILLED
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right.)
(Received this ofay at 1.50 p.m.) LUCERNE, December 13.
Ten peirsoivs were killed and fifteen injured when an express travelling at fifty miles «!n hour ignored a signal and crashed 'head on Mo a local passenger train, travelling thirty miles an hour, in a tunnel'. The engines wore reduce! to heaps of twisted •steel and the drivers were killed. A through carriage conveying passengers to Germany was smashed. There were terrifying scehes in the darkness, when the passengers from the undamag'd- coaches attempted to rescue there injured and .imprisoned in the -pile of wreckage filling the tunnel. The dead includes five Children of one family.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1932, Page 6
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118TRAINS COLLIDE Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1932, Page 6
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