18 KILLED IN EXPRESS SMASH

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22404, 11 August 1947, Page 5

18 KILLED IN EXPRESS SMASH

CRASH INTO STATIONARY TRAIN 73 INJURED RESCUED FROM WRECKAGE (N .Z. P. A. —Router —Copy ri&U t.) (10 a.m.) LONDON, August 10. Eighteen people were killed and 73 injured, of whom 43 are detained in hospital, when the London-Lcccls express ran into the rear of another train near Doncaster station. Both trains left King’s Cross station for Leeds at 15-minute intervals and were filled. The L N.15.R. company said that four coaches of the first train ---ere completely smashed and another derailed. The locomotive and three coaches of the second train were derailed. 411 Ihc available ambulances and A dozen doctors worked all night I axis were pressed into rescue work. setting .hones, superintending .blood J 1 . transfusions and otherwise treating the Rescuers searched the wreckage lor j n hired at the Doncaster Royal Infour hours before all the trapped pas- fijimary. They were fighting to save sengers were released. An ambulance p ves a number of injured, man crawled under the wreckage and t) iC bodies of five women and two administered morphia to. a trapped !r ,en ere still unidentified, woman who died shortly afterwards. | worked in relays, setting broken hmbs Doctors at the Doncaster Hospital and fractures.