RAILWAY DISASTER
COLLISION IN FOG
CHILD-LADEN TRAIN
WARSAW, December 16. At least twenty schoolchildren ,were killed and over 100 were injured when a train leaving Posen station crashed into a stationary train awaiting the starting signal .on the same line. Two stationary coaches, filled with children, were hurled over a viaduct. t Many of the children were pinned down by the wreckage and slowly frozen to death. When the news of the accident spread hundreds of mothers rushed to the scene. Some went insane while searching the wreckage. The exact death roll is not known, but it will probably be much heavier than indicated. The accident is believed to have been due to a signalman's omission to warn the moving train of the presence of the other train, which the driver was unable to see owing to fog. ',
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 9
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138RAILWAY DISASTER Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 9
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