TRAIN DISASTERS.
TWO EXPRESSES COLLIDE.
LINE OFFICIALS DRUNK. FIRE ADDS TO HORROR. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright. Received October 25, 8.30 p.m. Berlin, Oct. 25. Appalling details are forthcoming of a collision between two Bukharest-Con-stanza expresses loaded with coronation guests, of whom eighty were killed and injured. The majority of the staff along the line were helplessly drunk, and they sang, laughed and danced riotlously 1 round the splintered vehicles. Rescue parties after their arrival, instead of extricating the victims, plundered them. Fire broke out and intensified the horror. All the line officials were arrested. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable A«sn. ANOTHER COLLISION. MANY LIVES LOST. Received October 25, 8.30 p.m. Amsterdam, Oct. 25. A message from Limburg states two passenger trains collided between Neuss ami Crefeld. Sixty are reported killed and injured. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ACCIDENT NEAR PARIS. TOUR PERSONS KILLED. Received October, 25, 8.30 p.m. Paris, Oct. 25. Two local trains entering Paris collided near Saint Denis. Four were killed and twenty-eight injured. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1922, Page 5
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164TRAIN DISASTERS. Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1922, Page 5
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