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FORTY-FOUR INJURED. TRAIN CRASHES INTO BUFFERS ACCIDENT AT CHARING CROSS (United Press Association—Ey Electric Telegraph Copyright.) —United Service). ' Received 12.25 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 19. Forty-four were injured' when a suburban electric train carrying 500 passengers crashed into the buffers at Charing Cross this morning. Most of the injured ware women and girls. All except three were sent home after treatment at hospitals. Half-fainting women and .girls were assisted to ambulances 1 at intervals for nearly an hour. Some were imprisoned in the wreckage for half an hour, parts of the carriages being sawn away to secure their release.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 September 1928, Page 9
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103SMASH AT STATION Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 September 1928, Page 9
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