CRASH INTO SIDING
FOUR PERSONS KILLED. ENGLISH RAILWAY ACCIDENT. VICTIMS TRAPPED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, June 28. A railway train on route from Ashford, Kent, to .London, crashed into a dead-end siding at Swiuney. it is reported tuat lour people were killed and 12 injured. The torrine noise of the impact, accompanied by a building electric nash, caused by tne engine striking a 32,U0Uvoit transiormer, wakened the whole neighbourhood at 11.30 o’clock last iiignt. •ambulances and doctors were rushed to Swanley. The engine was found embedded in a high bank. The two leading carriages were wrecked and the screaming victims trapped in the debris. Rescuers worked with torches extricating the dead and injured. The train carried about 400 Sunday visitors to the seaside. The dead included three women who were travelling in the first compartment. A child, also an occupant of the first compartment, miraculously escaped. It was sleeping when the train crashed and was catapulted across the compartment into the lap of a woman who was found dead. The fireman escaped with minor injuries.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 7
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177CRASH INTO SIDING Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 7
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