Only at 5:10 AM did the Balvano station master realize a disaster had happened, after being informed by the last car's brakesman Giuseppe De Venuto who survived and managed to reach the station walking on the tracks.
Due to the number of corpses, the post-war lack of resources, and the weak mobbing power that the poor families of deceased people could exercise, victims were buried without a religious service at the Balvano cemetery, in four common graves.