PITEOUS SCENES
CSOLL[SION ON ITALIAN RAILWAY. (Received December IS, 8.20 a.m.) HOME, December 17."" Twenty-five were killed and one hundred injured in the collision between the Catania-Messina express and a goods train, which happened through a signalman's mistake, A number were pinned under the wreckage for four hours. They begged to be killed. The dead were terribly mutilated. The switchman alleged to be responsible for the disaster has fled.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 19 December 1912, Page 5
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69PITEOUS SCENES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 19 December 1912, Page 5
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