RAILWAY SMASH.
TEN PEOPLE KILLED AND MANY INJURED. CARRIAGES MOUNT STATION PLATFORM. PORTERS’ ROOM SMABHED AND PORTER KILLED.
A TERRIFIC IMPACT
By folfgraiili* Pres« Asa’n, Copy right I London, Sept. 1. Tho London Cromer express was wrecked at Witham, near Colchoster. I Ton pereone woro killed and 200 injured 1 Rocoivod 4,7 p.m,i Sept. 8. London, Sept. 2. I Six womon and four mon woro killed | and 50 injured. The metals show no I fault. ' „ , I ApproaohiDg Witham at full epeod a carriage was dornilod. It ie bolioved the derailing was caused by a fracture of the axle or tho sharp curvo. ! Tho train suddenly parted. Four oarriagoe in tho rear section mounted the station platform—one turning a somersault—and demolished tho portora’ room, killing a porter. Tho carriages were heaped with a terrifio impact. There woro many miruoulous esoapes, inoluding a party of forty of Dr. Barnado’s children. The gasometer burst, firing an overturned carriage in the front section, but the sole occupant hoi leaped safely before the carriage was overturned.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1549, 4 September 1905, Page 2
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