London Bomb Outrage Wrecks And Kills
(Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, July 26.
■ As the result of the explosion of two bombs at King’s Cross railway station, Dr. Donald Campbell, a lecturer at Edinburgh University, who was married early this year, was killed and 16 people were injured. The bombs exploded simultaneously in the left luggage office ,at the station. Those injured include two women, whose clothes were torn off by the blast.
The terrific explosion rocked the neighbourhood. Three women and two porters inside the office at the time of the explosion were seriously hurt. One porter had a leg blown off, and his clothes ripped off, and a constable nearby was badly cut by flying glass.
A chauffeur and a woman in a car outside the station were also wounded. The office became a scene of indescribable devastation.
A great cloud of smoke belched from it, and police dashed in and dragged out the injured. A woman 50 yards away was blown off her feet, and the roadway and the station approached were littered with debris from shattered suitcases.
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Northern Advocate, 27 July 1939, Page 7
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