RAILWAY SMASH
TRAINS COLLIDE HEAD=ON IN SOUTH AFRICA TWENTY-THREE PERSONS KILLED. MANY OTHERS INJURED. ?I*6oB Association Electric Telecranb —Convrieht CAPE TOWN, April 5. Twenty-three were killed and many injured in a head-on collision at night between a passenger train and a goods train south of Plumtree on the main Bulawayo-Johannesburg line. The drivers and firemen of both engines were killed.
Rescue work was hampered by a fierce storm and the absence of lights. The goods train included three trucks of dynamite, which fortunately did not explode.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1938, Page 7
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86RAILWAY SMASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1938, Page 7
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