RUNAWAY TRAIN
BRUSSELS, December 1
Ten persons were killed and 75 injured, 1.4 seriously, in a train smash outside Namur Station about 7 a.m. today.
The train, which left Brussels at 0.42 a.m was filled mostly with workers and school children.
On the hill which runs down to Namur the train reached a speed oi 50 miles and hour mid when it had passed the level-crossing the engine fouled the the points, left the rails, and turned over.
A postal van, two third-class coach es and one second-class coach filled with passengers piled up on top ol the engine and were wrecked.
People living near the station, railway staff, doctors and nurses hurried to the scene, and all the available taxicabs were requistioned to convey the injured to hospital. In some cases wood and metal bad to be sawn through to reach the bodies the last of which was not recovered until three hours after the accident
occurred. This afternoon King Albert visited the scene, and later visited the injured in hospital. The driver of the engine, who escaped without a scratch, said that the accident was caused by the brakes failing.
No English people were hurt. Pie only person who escaped injury in the first-class coach was a man who realising that an accident was inevitable clung to a luggage-rack.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1930, Page 2
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