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Vl REMAX AXD DRIVER KICKED. SMASH WITH. GOODS TRAIN'. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright LONDON. April 14. The Aberdeen express collided with a goods train at Burnt Island. The driver and fireman were killed and four passengers seriously injured. The express train was going down hill at a mile a minute, and owing to a corner the driver diii not see the goods train until it was impossible to apply the. brakes. The express struck (lie goods train obliquely, otherwise there would have been an appalling disaster. The engine, throe luggage vans, and a passenger coach were derailed and flung on to the golf links. The driver and fireman, who did not attempt to jump, were crushed to death at their posts. Trotter, the guard, escaped by creeping through a window. Though severely shaken, he pluckily extinguished the flaring gas under the overturned carriages. The goods engine only lost a buffer, and was able to resume the journey.
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Southland Times, Issue 17627, 16 April 1914, Page 5
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158EXPRESS COLISION Southland Times, Issue 17627, 16 April 1914, Page 5
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