TRAIN DISASTER.
EXPRESSES. CRASH AT HULL. LONDON, Feb. 14. A head-on collision of two trains occurred at Hull, and six caches, taining many school children and business men, were telescoped. The casualties were 8 killed and 30 injured. ' The disaster was duo to the Scarborough express crashing into the Wiihernsea local express, filled witfh scholars and business men, on their way to Hulk The crash occurred half a mile from the station, opposite, the workhouse. Three carriages of the local train were telescoped, and the inmates’ of the workhouse, with amazing quickness, cut a hole in the wall, through which the injured passengers were, carried and given attention by the- workhouse, doctors and nurses. A TRAGIC INCIDENT. One most tragic incident was the case of a father and two sons named 'Estreet, who arrived at Withernsea Station as the train was moving out far Hull. The father said they could not. catch if, but the older son sprinted and scrambled aboard the train. His was the first body extricated from the wreckage, just after his father and brother arrived by a later train. Though the first carriage was filled with schoolboys, only one was killed.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 16 February 1927, Page 3
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195TRAIN DISASTER. Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 16 February 1927, Page 3
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