KOREAN NATIONAL RAILROAD WRECK, NEAR SEOUL, KOREA Part 2
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GI rescuers stand by wreck of train No 182 derailed on trestle between Inchon and Yondongpo twenty miles east of Seoul. The wreck attributed to locomotive boiler explosion killed an estimated seventeen persons and injured 200, including three GIs. Passengers were mostly Korean school children. GI attends a casualty. GIs of Transportation Corps labor to clear wreckage and free some victims whose feet are seen hanging from lifeless bodies trapped between the RR car and the trestle. AVs of the wreck. Men working on ladders beneath the bridge extricate a body. VS, RR crane overturns one of the wrecked passenger cars which topples to the pond beneath. GIs carry covered bodies of some victims.
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