LONDON STATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 9

LONDON STATIONS

ONE KILLED, 19 HURT

TERRIFIC BLAST

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrlght.l

(Received July 27, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 26.

One person was killed and sixteen wfere injured as a result of the explosion of two bombs almost simultaneously in the left luggage office at King's Cross Station. Those injured include two women,-whose clothes were torn off by the blast Another bomb exploded in a cloakroom at Victoria Station, three people being injured.

The office at King's Cross station is a shambles, A terrific explosion rocked the neighbourhood. Threewomen and. two porters who were. inside the office at the time of the explosion were seriously injured. One porter had one leg blown oft and, his clothes ripped off. A constable near by was badly cut by flying glass; A chauffeur and a woman inside a car outside the station were also wounded. The office is a scene of indescribable devastation. A great cloud of smoke belched from the office, into which police dashed and dragged out the injured. A woman fifty yards away was blown off her feet. The roadway: and the approaches to the station were littered with debris from shattered suitcases. UNIVERSITY LECTURER'S DEATH. Dr. Donald Campbell, a lecturer at Edinburgh University, who had just arrived on holiday with his wife, died in hospital as a result of multiple injuries. His wife was also injured in the legs. They were married only this year. Seventeen other persons have been admitted to hospital, including »ix women and a girl aged 15. At the time of the explosion four employees and two passengers were inside the cloakroom and four others irii the doorway. Railway police, blinded by fumes, courageously dashed into the wrecked office to assist the injured. As it was lunch time, there was a big crowd on the platforms. They were horrified to see women flung to the pavement, portions of their dresses being torn off. The police, despite a long search, failed to find the bomb. It is believed to have been made with /gelignite. A large hole was blown in the floor t>t the cloakroom. Trunks were burst* and not a single case or parcel was undamaged. Nearly a hundred police who were rushed to the station allowed no one to pass without reason. : Depositors of luggage at other termini are being closely scrutinised. . ■ V ■ The crowds were so infuriated that I the police had the greatest difficulty in preventing assaults on persons of Irish appearance. . . ~. Five men were taken to the police station and* questioned. ~.,.; . VICTORIA STATION EXPloisipNi. Compared with that at King's Cross* the explosion at Victoria Station was. a minor affair. Three attendants had narrow escapes, one being taken to hospital and the others treated?at the station. The shutters were blown out and the cloakroom filled with smoke. Police, ambulances, and a fire engine were rushed up. ' -' ' ■ _ The station clock was shattered; Several were injured by falling glass. The police kept a close watch on a railway viaduct near Uppingham. the biggest railway bridge in England, as they were informed of a plot to blow it up tonight. Three women and two men were charged at Bow Street in connection with pillar-box explosions. w . . . The House of Commons, which is rushing the Prevention of Violence KU. read it a third time,, without.a di^ 0"* The measure may become law toraor> row night.