RAILWAY DISASTER.

Grey River Argus, 16 February 1927, Page 5

RAILWAY DISASTER.

IN ENGLISH CITY. 38 Casualties. LONDON, Fetxruary 14. A head-on collision of two trains occurred at Hull. Six coaches containing many school children and business men were telescoped. The casualties totalled 38. Thru" wore eight killed and .*»(> injured. The disaster was due to the Scarborough express crashing into the Wit hern sea local express, filled with scholars and business men on their way to Hull. The crash occurred half a mile from the station opposite a workhouse. Three carriages were teresedped. WORKHOUSE PEOPLE TO RESCUE. The inmates of the workhouse with; an'.azing quickness cut a hfile in the wall through which the injured passen gers were Carried, and given attention l?y the workhouse doctors and nurses. Tin* most tragic incident was the cast if a father and two sons, unified Es troet, who arrived al Wifhernsea st a tion as the train was moving out fot Hull. The father said they could not catch it, but the older son sprinted anC scrambled aboard the train, ile wa& the first body, extricated from the wreckage, just as the father and brother arrived by the later train. Though the first carriage was I Heo with schoolboys, only one was killed.