RAILWAY COLLISION
ACCIDENT QUTSIDE TUNNEL,
LbNDON, July 5. Hardly had an express train emerged from a long tunnel in the Pennine range this forenoon when at full speed it crashed sideways into a light engine at Diggle Junction, hurling it 30 yards. The driver was killed, and the fireman found unconscious and injured on the line. Pour passengers are dead. The funnel of the first locomotive flew off and the locomotive itself was derailed. Its fireman was killed, and the driver injured. The second locomotive -was forced back over tho tender, telescoping the first two cars. Us driver and fireman escaped with a shaking. Steam from the engines poured in through the broken windows of the carriages, adding to the confusion of. tho passengers, several of whom v/ortj pinned under the wreckage which was piled on both lines, thus stopping the traffic. There was no panic. The uninjured passengers were forwarded to their destinations by a special train later in the day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18916, 17 July 1923, Page 7
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162RAILWAY COLLISION Otago Daily Times, Issue 18916, 17 July 1923, Page 7
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