EDINBURGH RAILWAY ACCIDENT
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, July 28. The Edinburgh accident was caused through the incoming train running into a stationary train. Four carriages of the latter were telescoped. LONDON, July 29 The victims of the Edinburgh smash were mostly women and girls, members of a polytechnic holiday party from London, Oxford, and Manchester, residing temporarily in a hostel at Edinburgh. They had been on an excursion to Saint Andrews and had .just transferred into a stationary subuiban train. Seventy-five minutes elapsed before. the last of those injured could he extricated from the telescoped carriages. Every movement of the structure with crowbars evoked groans from those pinned underneath. Doctors succoured the imprisoned persons with brandy while rescuers were smashing the woodwork.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 30 July 1924, Page 5
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