RAILWAY TRAGEDIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 5

RAILWAY TRAGEDIES

TWO IN GREAT BRITAIN

EXPRESS GOES OVER EMBANKMENT ANOTHER TRAIN DASHES THROUGH WORKMEN. FIGHT PERSONS KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON. August 5. Tlie engine and three carriages of I lie Isle of Arran express ITom Glasgow plunged over an embankment ut Saltcoats. The deatliroll is three, including tin* fireman. There are also 20 injured, including the driver, who tried Io extricate the fireman from under the engine, which was impossible until a crane was requisitioned. The train's eight coaches carried 400 holiday-makers. Five persons were killed and four injured when an express dashed through 2000 workmen about to board a special train at Bramshott Camp. The bodies lay all over the track. In the Saltcoats crash the engine plunged down the embankment when rounding a curve and finished up within five yards of a miners' homo, whose 50 inmates rushed from their lunch to aid in the rescue work. An unemployed man turned off the steam after a crippled inmate, of the home penetrated the scalding clouds in order to liberate those trapped. The first coach and several other coaches were telescoped, and one perilously hung over the embankment. The rescuers had to use axes to release the terrified occupants of the carriage nearest the tender. After her rescue, a woman gave birth to- a baby at an adjacent house. FATALITIES IN GERMANY TRAIN & MOTOR-BUS COLLIDE. BERLIN. August 5. Eight persons were killed and many injured when a train collided with a motor-bus on a level crossing at Bagelsberg.