TRAINS COLLIDE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18927, 16 February 1927, Page 9

TRAINS COLLIDE.

DISASTER AT HULL. BIGHT KILLED AND THIRTY INJURED. (it e*»tt—rang assocutiok—co»twoxt.) (AtJBTBALIAX AUD V.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, February U. A head-on collision of two trains occurred at Hull, and six coaches, containing many school children and business men, were telescoped. Eight were killed and 30 injured. The disaster was due to the Scarborough express crashing into the Withernsea local express, which was filled with scholars and business men on their way to Hull. The crash occurred a mile from the station, opposite the workhouse. Three carriages of the local train were telescoped. Ihe inmates of the workhouse, with amazing quickness, cut a hole in the wall of the building, through which tbe injured passengers were carried and given attention by workhouse doctors and nurses. A father and two sons named Estreet arrived at the Withernsea station as the train was moving out for Hull. The father said that they could not catch the train, but the elder son sprinted and scrambled aboard the train. His was the first body extricated from the wreckage, just a* the father and brother arrived by a later train. Though the first carriage was filled with schoolboys, only one was killed.