RAILWAY SMASH
EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED AT ROTHERHAM London, November 19. Bight people were killed, in a collision between a passenger and a goods train at Rotherham. (Rec. November 21, 5.5 pm.) London, November 19. The York-Sheffield express was passing a slow-moving goods train at 45 miles an hour, when a coal wagon attached to the goods train was derailed, tearing open the sides of the last three express coaches. The passengers were carried along with the debris some distance before the train came to a halt. It transpires that some passengers, hearing a terrific crash, put their heads out of the window and were instantly killed. The sides of three carriages were completely ripped out. The scene was one of the utmost confusion for some minutes, but the passengers from the front portion of the train speedily extricated the dead and injured.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 49, 22 November 1926, Page 9
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142RAILWAY SMASH Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 49, 22 November 1926, Page 9
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