TRAIN SMASH
FOURTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. SIGNALMAN'S OMISSION. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Warsaw. December 15. Fourteen people were killed and 80 injured, mostly children, when a train leaving Posen station crashed into a stationary train which was awaiting the starting signal on the same line. Two stationary coaches, filled with children, were hurled over an embankment, while another was suspended in mid-air.
The accident is believed to have been due to a signalman’s omission to warn the moving train of the presence of the first, which the driver was unable to .see owing to fog. DEATH ROLL UNCERTAIN CHILDREN FREEZE TO DEATH. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) Warsaw, December 16. One of the trains was full of children going to school. Apart from those in two coaches flung from the viaduct many children were pinned down by the wreckage and slowly frozen to death. When the news spread hundreds of mothers rushed to the scene and some went insane while searching the wreckage. The death roll is not known, but is certain to be much heavier than the first 1 official report.
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Southland Times, Issue 22200, 18 December 1933, Page 7
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183TRAIN SMASH Southland Times, Issue 22200, 18 December 1933, Page 7
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