TRAINS IN COLLISION
ACCIDENT NEAR BERLIN 70 KILLED, 100 INJURED Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlg-nt) LONDON, Dec. 22 Seventy people were killed and 100 were injured in a collision between
two express trains near Berlin early this morning. Both trains were crowded. One was stationary at a station and the other was proceeding through the station.
The engine and six coaches of the moving train were derailed, also four coaches of the stationary train. This is the seventh railway disaster in Germany since the war. A total of at least 13 people is known to have been killed and 257 injured.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 9
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100TRAINS IN COLLISION Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 9
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