TRAGIC TRAIN WRECK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18774, 30 July 1924, Page 9

TRAGIC TRAIN WRECK.

EDINBUEGB ACCIDENT.

FOUR KILLED AND 29 INJURED.

MOSTLY WOMEN AND GIBLS.

SUFFERINGS DURING RESCUE.

MANY PINNED BENEATH DEBRIS.

By Telejrraph—Press Association—Copyright.

(Received 5.5 p.m.)

A. and N.Z.—Reuter. LONDON, July 28.

Four persons were killed and 29 others. were injured through a railway collision at the Haymarket station, Edinburgh. . The accident was caused through an incoming train running into a stationary train. Four of the carriages on the latter were telescoped.

The victims were mostly. women and girls, members of a Polytechnic holiday party from London, Oxford and' Manchester. They had been residing temporarily at a hostel in Edinburgh, and had been on an excursion to Saint Andrews.

The excursionists had just transferred into a stationary suburban train when the accident occurred.

Seventy-five minutes elapsed before the last of the injured passengers could be extricated from the telescoped carriages. Every movement of the structures ■ with the crowbars evoked groans from those who were pinned beneath the wreckage. Doctors succoured the imprisoned people with brandy -while the rescuers were smashing the woodwork.