Show RUSSIAN RAIL CRASH TAKES FIFTY LIVES Scores Injured as Two Engines Engines En En- I En-I gines Plow Through Standing Cars CENSOR CLAMPS ON LID Noise of Wreck Heard Over Wide Area B Br By Associated Press MOSCOW Jan 7 At 7 At least 50 persons persons persons per per- sons were killed and scores were injured in injured injured in- in in a train wreck 14 kilometers northwest of Moscow Saturday it was learned today The number of dead was increased by a freight train which plowed through the injured who were lying along a parallel track A local six-coach six passenger train heavily packed with passengers halted halted halt halt- ed ad at a switch head preparatory to taking a side tra k on a stretch of double track Two following trains crashed into the rear end of the standing train and scattered bodies and debris along the right of way splintering almost all the coaches for the entire length of the halted train The crash was heard over a wide area and attracted great numbers of peasants who ho tried to assist surviving surviving surviving ing trainmen in succoring the dying As the mangled bodies were pulled from the shattered framework of the cars they were placed along ap ad adjoining adjoining adjoining ad- ad joining track pending the arrival of medical crews from Moscow While this work was going on a a. a freight train thundered into the stretch without warning Before the engineer could sense the situation and apply the brakes his locomotive and several box cars had slashed their way through the victims The government placed a censorship censorship censorship censor censor- ship on the news in an effort to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent information from reaching the outside world and railway officials declined to answer answer anwer questions Some estimates of the dead reach several hundred but nothing definite is known a a |