TRAIN TRAGEDY
COLLISION AT LICHFIELD I FIFTEEN BODIES RECOVERED LONDON, Jan. 1. Fifteen dead were counted after a four-hour search in the wreckage of a train which was unloading passengers at. Lichfield station, Staffordshire, when a train carrying fish crashed into its rear, telescoping and splintering several carriages. Five local hospitals are being used to treat those injured. The count of the number of killed and injured is incomplete. An eye-witness of the crash said the fish train seemed to go right through the stationary passenger train. All the coaches on the train were telescoped. The force of the impact put out nearly every light on the station, and searchlights from a neighbouring R.A.F. aerodrome were brought into operation to help the rescue work. Those killed included two women and three unidentified children. Nearly 100 persons were injured.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 6
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138TRAIN TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 6
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