29 Die In German Rail Crash
( N Z-F-A.-Reuter—Copyright) HAMBURG, October 6. Twenty-nine persons were killed and 45 injured in a crash on the Hamburg overhead railway system yesterday.
The West German news agency, D.P.A., said that police had arrested a signalman in connexion with the crash. The accident occurred when a suburban train ran into the rear waggon of a repair train. According to eye-witneeees, the leading carriage of the three-carriage passenger train, packed with people, was skewered by the end of two long girders on the repair waggon and was squashed like a concertina by the impact
The tremendous roar of the crash—on an embankment in central Hamburg—was followed seconds later by screams from the trapped and injured. Eyewitnesses raid there were horrible scenes as railwaymen, police and firemen worked by the light of torches to extract bodies and injured from the wreck. Red Cross workers crawled among the wreckage to give drinks to injured survivors trapped in the debris. Many of the injured are in a critical condition.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29638, 7 October 1961, Page 11
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