TRAINS COLLIDE
ACCIDENT AT GLASGOW FIVE DEATHS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, September 7. (Received September 8, at noon.) The first fatal accident involving passengers on British railways this yearoccurred last night, when two Loudon, Midland, Scottish passenger trains collided outside St. Enoch’s Station, at Glasgow, as a result of which a male passenger and an engine driver were billed, and two women passengers and one fireman died from injuries received in the accident.
Forty people are reported to have been injured, some seriously. The cause of the accident is the subject of official inquiry, but it is believed that at the network of rails one of the trains jumped the points, colliding with a train that was approaching from the opposite direction. Both e’ngines were derailed, and five coaches damaged. Doctors and ambulance men were. promptly on the scene. The passengers were quickly extricated from the damaged coaches and removed to hospitals. ,
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Evening Star, Issue 21820, 8 September 1934, Page 13
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156TRAINS COLLIDE Evening Star, Issue 21820, 8 September 1934, Page 13
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