Train collision in Indonesia kills at least 14, death toll rising

On a Wednesday in Indonesia, two trains met in collision rather than passage, leaving at least fourteen people dead and dozens wounded in what authorities are calling a major transportation disaster. The death toll remains in motion — somewhere between fourteen and sixteen — as rescue workers continue to move through wreckage and hospitals absorb the injured. Among the details that have emerged with unusual consistency is that all confirmed victims were women, lending a particular human gravity to what might otherwise be rendered as abstraction. The incident joins a long history of moments whe