TRAIN WRECK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21919, 1 October 1934, Page 9

TRAIN WRECK

ENGLISH RAILWAY NUMBER OF CASUALTIES COLLISION IN DABK COACHES TELESCOPED TASK OF RESCUE!S Ily Teleernph—Press Association—CoDyricht (Received September 30. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, S >pt. 29 Rescuers early yesterday morning irere still extricating killed and injured fiecple from the sceno of a railway acci- « cler.t at Winwick Junction, near "Warrington, Lancashire, where the nine o'c'ocli Irish night mail from London rar. into the rear of a local motor passenger train. Most of the casualties were in tine first two ccarhes.of the express, which were telescoped when the engine dug into ihei rear of the slow train, one coach of which caught fire. The guard extinguished the blaze. " Police and ambulance men arri.red in ' rars and buses, the headlights of which were directed on to the scene. Nine bodies were recovered, but it js reported that 14 people were killed, including three women. Twun:y-six injured people are in the Warrington Infirmary and others elsewhere. The total casualties probably will he 40. The engine of the express tore the last cojch of the slow train to matchwood and ripped off the roof of the second coach. . _ Wreckage was used for improvised stretchers. A little girl was hurled into a field from one carriage window and has not, yet been found. The crash was heard for miles around Those killed included the guard of the ,local train.