Crushed to death.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 95, 15 April 1914, Page 5

Crushed to death.

IN RAILWAY COLLISION. FOUR PASSENGERS INJURED. [joy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Preps association.''! (Received 9.0 a.in.) London, April 14. The Aberdeen express collided with an engine at Burnt Island. The driver and fireman were killed and four passengers seriously injured. “A MILE A MINUTE.” killed at THEIR POSTS. SOME FORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES. (Received 10.15 a.m.) London, April 14. The express train was going downhill at the. rate of a mile a minute, and owing to a corner did not see the goods train until it was impossible to apply the brakes. The obstruction was struck obliquely, otherwise there would have been an appaling disaster. The engine,' three luggage vans, and a passenger coach were derailed and flung'on to the golf links. The driver and fireman, who did not attempt to jump, were crushed to death at their posts. Trotter, the' guard, escaped by creeping through the window. Though severely shaken, he luckily extinguished the flaring gas under the overturned carriages. The goods engine only lost a buffer, and was able to resume the journey.