TRAIN COLLISION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 October 1913, Page 5

TRAIN COLLISION.

CABLE NEWS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).)

SEVEN DEAD BODIES RECOVERED. SEVERAL PERSONS TERRIBLY INJURED. (Received October 16, 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 15. The Harwich boat-train from the Central Station, Liverpool, collided with an express from Warrington, which was standing in a tunnel outside St. James's Station, Liverpool. The last coach was smashed, and two or three carriages telescoped. Seven dead bodies and > eighteen persons who were injured—several terribly—were extricated from the wreckage. The accident is attributed by passengers to the stationary train putting on coal"in the tunnel,' the steam obscuring the signals for the oncoming train. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OF A BOY. (Received October 16, 1 p.m.) LONDON, October 15. Patrick Lee, aged 14 years, had an extraordinary escape in the Liverpool train collision. After the resduers had been working among the wreckage for half an hour, the boy, begrimed, and with „his clothes in shreds, crawled from beneath a bogie., When the crash came the carriage he was in fell to pieces, and Lee was precipitated under the bogie. When his limbs were released he found he was able to bore his way out. He was not injured.