TRAIN TELESCOPED
DISASTER AT LIVERPOOL.
SEVEN DEATHS.
BOY'S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
By TologTapli—Prces AuEoolatton—Copyright ' London, October 15. Tho Harwich boat-train from, Central Station, Liverpool, collided ivith ail express for Warrington, which was standing in a tunnel outside St. James's Station, Liverpool. Tho last coach was smashed, and two or three carriages telescoped. Soven dead bodies and eighteen persons who wero injured—several of them torribly mutilated—wero extracted from tho wreokage. Patrick Leo, aged fourteen, years, had an extraordinary escape in the Liverpool train collision. After the rescuors liad been working among the wreckage for half an hour, tho boy, begrimed, find with his clotnes in shreds, crawled from beneath a hogie. When the crash came the carriage he was in fell to pieces, and Leo was precipitated under the bogie. When his limbs wero released he was able to boro his way out. He was not. injured.
The accident is attributed to, a passengor in tho stationary train pulling the stop-cord in tho tunnel, the steam obscuring the signals for the oncoming train.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 7
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171TRAIN TELESCOPED Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 7
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