RAILWAY SMASH
HEAD-ON COLLISION AT HULL. CABS TELESCOPED. MANY KILLED AND INJURED. LONDON, February 14. In a head-on collision between two trains at Hull six coaches, containing many school children and business men, were telescoped. Eight persons were killed and thirty injured. The accident .was due to the Scarborough express crashing into the Withersea local express filled with scholars and business people bound for Hull. The collision occurred half a mile from the station opposite the workhouse. Three carriages in the local train were telescoped. The inmates of the workhouse with amazing quickness cut a hole in the wall, through which the injured were carried and given attention by the workhouse doctors and nurses. The most tragic incident was that of a father and two sons named Estreet. They arrived at the Withersea station as the train was moving off towards Hull. The father said that he could not catch it, but the eldest son sprinted and scrambled aboard. His was the first body extricated from the wreckage just as the father and brother arrived by a later train. Though the first carriage was filled with schoolboys only one was killed.— (A. and N.Z.).
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Wairarapa Age, 16 February 1927, Page 5
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194RAILWAY SMASH Wairarapa Age, 16 February 1927, Page 5
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