THE RAILWAY WRECK

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 28, 2 August 1923, Page 7

THE RAILWAY WRECK

A TERRIBLE SMASH

EFFECT OF INCREASE IN FARES.

' • ' ; BERLIN, 31st July. Hie deaths in the railway collision near Hamburg are now estimated at a hundred, and (here are a. similar number injured. The impact of the collision was terrific, an engine and ten coaches being piled on top of each other as high as a house. Other coaches Were overturned and dashed to pieces. Many of the injured remained pinned under the wreckage for hours before being extrirated. Ihe identification of the dead is difficult, owing to the mangled condition of the bodies. CI'UDLJSUED IN THE TIMES.) LONDON, 31st July. A berlin message states that the financial stringency had a direct, bearing on the railway accident. It was notified that lures would !% trebled to-mor-row and many people who had been spending a short holiday hastened back tit £ V Us llecessi^ted the running o! the Hamburg-Munich express in two sections. The first stopped near Kresensen, owing to an engine defect. While it was stationary the second section rushed up. In the dim morning light the driver noticed the block on the line two hundred yards ahead and jammed on the brakes but the heavy train slid along the rails and crashed with te" niic force into the rear of the standing express. The driver and fireman miraa. lowly escaped. The wreckage caught fire but troops and ambulances immediately rushed to the suene, checked th e ju£d "distance to the m-