USA: Explosives train derails

Photo: AP Derailed flat bed cars of the CP ammunition train

The train was heading for the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Crane, about 75 miles southwest of Indianapolis. The ordnance was being transported in containers on freight cars belonging to Canadian Pacific Railway and included "bombs, demolition charges and propellant charges''.

The accident occurred near Burns City, about half a mile outside the Crane Naval Base. Cars were being shunted when four became derailed. The two cars carring the bombs tipped over shedding their eight containers.