RAILWAY SMASH
Train Collides with Deac End four people killed LONDON, June 28. A train from Ashford, Kent, proceeding to London, crashed into the dead end of a siding at Swanley. It is reported that four persOns were killed and twelve injured. The terrifid noise of the impac^ accompanied by a. blinding electric flash caused by the engine striking & 32,000-volt transformer, wakened the whole neighbourhood at 11.30 p.m Ambulances and doctors were rushed to Swanley. The engine was found embedded in a high bank, the two leadlng carrlages were wreeked and the screaming vietims were trapped in the" debris Rescners worked with torches extricat ing the dead and injured. The train carried about 400 Sunday visitors to th6 seaside. The dead in " cluded three women travelling in the first compartment. A child, also an occupant of the first compartmeni, miracedously eseaped. It was sleepxng when the train crashed and was catapulted across the qompartraent into the jlap of a wom&n who Was found dead. ;The fireman eseaped with mlnor in» 'jurieftj
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 139, 29 June 1937, Page 13
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