The World - News from Aug. 10, 1987

Many people were killed when a Moscow-bound passenger train collided with a freight train whose brakes failed as it sped into a station, the labor newspaper Trud said. Railroad workers reportedly had worked frantically to find a free track for the runaway train just before the crash Friday north of Rostov-on-Don. The newspaper did not give an exact number of deaths but referred to “tens of people” as having lost their lives.