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express smash debris BID TO AVERT DISASTER LONDON, Aug. 11. As the doctors fought to save thelives of several of those critically injured in the express smash near Doncastei, queues of men and women lined up at the station, Doncaster Hospital and police headquarters to inspect the battered suitcases, torn clothes and ousmeared toys. . ~ ... It was as a rail official said, a family train smash.’ Each train carried people returning from or going to holiday reS °Mr. Ronald Huffingley, aged 28, of Leeds the fireman of the second train, said: “We rounded the corner at Balby, n°ar Doncaster, with the signals at ‘clear.’ When I saw the standing train 40 yards ahead I could not believe my eyes. The driver, Mr. Bob Foster, aged 64, grabbed the brake levers and hung on but we crashed.” Two ex-nurses, Mesdames L. Barlow and E Law were the first of 200 women from the nearby streets who worked six hours side by side with official rescue squads tearing up 300 sheets as dressings, many tablecloths and towels, all ransacked from their homes. One woman and two men of the dead are still unidentified.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22405, 12 August 1947, Page 5
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